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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Aug 1, 2003 7:10AM

Joe,

I looked at the examples you cited, but none of them talked about pull down
or dynamic lists. They talked about styling standard lists with CSS to
create graphical effects, but there was no mention of a mouse hover making
a sub menu appear. Did I miss something?

Thanks,
Jon


At 08:18 AM 8/1/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>> 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read, but he's out of date on this one.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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