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From: Jim Thatcher
Date: Jul 31, 2003 12:34PM

I thought the question concerned the use of JavaScript to display a sub-menu
when moving the mouse over a main menu item or link - whether these could be
accessible.

The tutorial (http://jimthatcher.com/webcoursea.htm#Webcourse10.d) tried to
answer that by saying that if all the links of the "sub-menu" are easily
available on the page opened by the main menu item link, then yes - the
advantage of someone using the JavaScript sub-menus is nominal.

I didn't intend to be commenting about fonts or colors or anything else,
just whether or not the drop-down menus could be accessible. I think Yes,
essentially by ignoring the sub-menus.

Jim
508 Web Accessibility Tutorial http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.
"Constructing Accessible Web Sites:" http://jimthatcher.com/news.htm