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From: Joe Clark
Date: Aug 1, 2003 6:22AM

>> I was wondering if it's possible to make drop down menus for
>>navigation that are accessible?
>
>Depends on what you mean by accessibility, but the practical answer
>is "no, and there's no need to". Dropdown menus for navigation are a
>bad idea.

Drop-down menus created by styling unordered lists are a perfectly
accessible and standards-compliant method. And that's not the only
method, either.

Jukka is great at sweeping condemnations, and they're always amusing
to read, but he's out of date on this one.

<http://www.google.com/search?q=css+unordered+list+menus>;
<http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22css+menus%22>;
<http://www.alistapart.com/stories/taminglists/>;
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Accessibility <http://joeclark.org/access/>;
Author, _Building Accessible Websites_
<http://joeclark.org/book/>;


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