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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jul 6, 2006 11:40AM

Debbie Charles wrote:

> I had a programmer send the following. I am not familiar with DHTML. Can
> anyone advise as to how accessible it could be?

> I'm considering whether to use DHTML generated drop down menus for
> navigation. Are these considered "accessible"? Here's a product which
> claims to produce accessible code:
>
> http://www.udm4.com/menu/

James "Brothercake" Edwards's UDM is, last time I checked, one of the
most accessible ones around.

As a side note: nowadays, the more preferred term for
standards-compliant javascript manipulation of pages is "DOM scripting"
(as DHTML has connotations of the bad old days of code forking for
browsers and document.write).

P
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