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From: Angela French
Date: Thu, Jun 09 2011 10:03AM
Subject: opinion on adding select list "name" as first option
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I have another question regarding select lists. I'm sure you have all seen the practice in select lists where the first item in the list has not value, but instead its text attempts to put a title or name on the entire list. For example the QuickLinks list in the top right of the banner on our home page: http://www.sbctc.edu/index.aspx .
This seems a bad practice to me but would like the opinion of this group, especially screen reader users. How does a screen reader user know that the first item is not actually a choice in the list? Selecting it gets you nowhere. :(
Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Thu, Jun 09 2011 10:15AM
Subject: Re: opinion on adding select list "name" as first option
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Hello:
I have seen select and that is a known behavior people recognize but your write it does let a person think it's a choice what I found more confusing though is the search field is write after the combo and it could be presumed as a modifier on the search for cognitive disability's .
Lucy Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7591
http://attlc.berkeley.edu
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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Subject: [WebAIM] opinion on adding select list "name" as first option
I have another question regarding select lists. I'm sure you have all seen the practice in select lists where the first item in the list has not value, but instead its text attempts to put a title or name on the entire list. For example the QuickLinks list in the top right of the banner on our home page: http://www.sbctc.edu/index.aspx.
This seems a bad practice to me but would like the opinion of this group, especially screen reader users. How does a screen reader user know that the first item is not actually a choice in the list? Selecting it gets you nowhere. :(
Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
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http://www.checkoutacollege.com<;http://www.checkoutacollege.com/>;
From: Angela French
Date: Thu, Jun 09 2011 10:21AM
Subject: Re: opinion on adding select list "name" as first option
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Interesting. The home page will be undergoing a redesign, so will keep that in mind.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 9:12 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] opinion on adding select list "name" as first option
Hello:
I have seen select and that is a known behavior people recognize but your write it does let a person think it's a choice what I found more confusing though is the search field is write after the combo and it could be presumed as a modifier on the search for cognitive disability's .
Lucy Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7591
http://attlc.berkeley.edu
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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Subject: [WebAIM] opinion on adding select list "name" as first option
I have another question regarding select lists. I'm sure you have all seen the practice in select lists where the first item in the list has not value, but instead its text attempts to put a title or name on the entire list. For example the QuickLinks list in the top right of the banner on our home page: http://www.sbctc.edu/index.aspx.
This seems a bad practice to me but would like the opinion of this group, especially screen reader users. How does a screen reader user know that the first item is not actually a choice in the list? Selecting it gets you nowhere. :(
Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
= EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
http://www.checkoutacollege.com<;http://www.checkoutacollege.com/>;