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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Aug 1, 2003 8:34AM

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Joe Clark wrote:

> Drop-down menus created by styling unordered lists are a perfectly
> accessible and standards-compliant method.

There's no such thing as perfectly accessible, and you know it, Joe.

Without examples that show (1) how you understood the question and
(2) what you propose as an answer, it is impossible to say exactly
how you are wrong.

> <http://www.google.com/search?q=css+unordered+list+menus>;
> <http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22css+menus%22>;

Are you serious?

> <http://www.alistapart.com/stories/taminglists/>;

Where's the beef? I don't see any dropdown list.

I'm not going to present an example that would show what you probably had
in your mind. It might be something that has tolerable implications on
accessibility. But if you call it perfectly accessible, then you're
thinking in terms of some finite set of technical requirements and
probably oriented towards (purportedly) avoiding to cause problems to
blind people.

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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