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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Jul 31, 2003 1:33PM

A person with a visual impairment cannot ignore the sub menus if they
happen to move the mouse over the sub menu hot spot on the page.

Jon


At 01:29 PM 7/31/2003 -0500, Jim Thatcher wrote:
>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
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