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Re: text links on a separate page - compliant with 508?

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Date: Mar 2, 2005 3:55AM

Javascript flyout menus are still very popular. Another way to help
make them accessible is to place all the the child links on a seperate
page when the parent is clicked on.
-Lisa


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:47:59 -0600, darrel.austin
wrote:
>
> > Crikey, I thought javascript based navigation systems died sometime
> > around 1998...
>
> As long as Macromedia keeps releasing Dreamweaver and Firefox with their
> bloated, inaccssible javscript-based fly-out menu creation wizards, I don't
> think we'll be seeing an end to them anytime soon.
>
> Also, people tend to forget that they can not only be inaccessible to screen
> readers, but also PDA users, text browser users, keyboard users and those
> with motor control issues.
>
> > Seriously though, this webmaster may want to look at better, more
> > modern, and gracefully degrading alternatives like Brothercake's UDM
> > http://www.brothercake.com/site/products/menu/ (commercial),
> > Suckerfish http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ or Son of
> > Suckerfish http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/
>
> Just to add to the list, this is another option:
>
> http://projectseven.com/
>
> Point being javascript fly-out menus aren't by default inaccessible, it's
> just that there's a lot of poorly built ones out there that are.
>
> I do agree with you, though, that a list of text links at the bottom of the
> page would make things better than they currently are. By putting them on
> every page, it'd be one less page people have to jump to to get through the
> site.
>
> -Darrel
>
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