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

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From: Don Hinshaw
Date: Jul 28, 2005 6:33PM

Jim Thatcher wrote:

>Don Wrote:
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>>I have used these menus from Project Seven:
>>http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm/index.htm
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>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.
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Hi Jim,
I'd like to understand your point a little better...are you saying that
it is a matter of degrees of accessibiity? In other words you feel the
menus are accessible, just not very accessible? What about them is not
accessible?
So you are saying that once I get to page 'A' all of the previously
hidden subpage choices should be clearly visible on that page, right?
What about the rest of the hidden menus for the other sections...aren't
they equally inaccessible at that point?
Or is the idea that once on page 'A' a user won't have to tab through or
listen to all the menu choices for all the pages to get to the
sub-choices for page 'A'?

Thanks,
Don

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Don Hinshaw
Hinshaw Design Group
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