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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Oct 18, 2006 7:20AM

Penny,

Its simply good semantic markup. A menu is a list of links. (Web
Standards) For more information consult the Web Standards Project at
http://www.webstandards.org/ or check out related articles at ALA
http://alistapart.com/

>From a screen reader standpoint, it is possible to discover the number
of items in the menu and to easily skip past the menu when it is marked
up as an unordered list.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that search algorithms take advantage of
list mark up either.

mike