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From: John Britsios
Date: Jul 31, 2003 1:46PM

Hi!

To JavaScript:

I avoid as far as possible JavaScript, to avoid running risks on
complications on the end users machines, or while goverment and other
employees are required to disable this feature, for security or other
reasons. Also there is a number of users who are very concerned about
security issues and disable this feature too.

Is that not also accessibility?

John Britsios

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Thatcher" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:29 PM
Subject: RE: drop down menus


> 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
>
>