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RE: good examples of javascript "roll over" menus with anaccessible alternative

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From: Jim Thatcher
Date: Jul 28, 2005 3:28PM

Don Wrote:
> I have used these menus from Project Seven:
> http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm/index.htm

Probably I am missing something on these menus, but the fact that you can
get to all menu items with the keyboard may make them technically
accessible, but not practically accessible. I believe that the only way to
have JavaScript roll menus accessible is to have the main menu item active
so that the page it opens has all the submenu links immediate in the
navigation area of the page - like at http://nsf.gov. Actually the NSF menu
system is not the same kind of rollover menus we're talking about(anymore)
but the idea is the same. There's a screen shot of what they used to be at
http://jimthatcher.com/webcoursea.htm, figure 10.4.

Christian added:
> Check my YADM: http://www.onlinetools.org/tools/yadm/reldropdown.html

These have the same problem except on my machine I don't even see the
submenu items when using the keyboard.

Jim

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