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From: Debbie Pomerance
Date: Jul 10, 2006 5:30PM

On 7/7/06, Joshue O Connor < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> > One concern that I do have with the use of dynamic menus is for screen
> > magnifier users. It is very easy to accidentally trigger the menu and
> > cover content when using a screen magnifier (e.g. ZoomText).


Coming to you from both the web world and the accessibility-challenged world
- I want to give my feedback as well.

I am a neophyte web designer and a Zoomtext 1.75-2.x magnification user -
and I have to admit that i frequently have problems with sites that use drop
down menus.

Oftentimes i have to pan my screen far to the right just to be able to get
to the drop down from the drop down menu I want to click on - and then I
accidentally drop it and I have to start over. Or I do the above but since
I have panned over so much I can't see the part of the screen I need to look
at while choosing the menu., etc., ad infinitum. There are many such
scenario examples I could mention.

My assumption is that people who use drop down menus don't realize that some
of the people using the site can't see the whole screen at one time.

Debbie P.




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