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From: Terzian, Sharon
Date: Sat, May 25 2013 5:00PM
Subject: accessible drop down menus
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Hi

is there REALLY any such thing as Accessible Drop Down Menus? And if so, could you please point me or provide some code?

thanks


Sharon Terzian
Webmistress/Sherlock Center @ RIC
Adjunct Professor/School of Managment @ RIC
http://www.sherlockcenter.org
http://www.dubowitzsyndrome.net

From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Sat, May 25 2013 5:06PM
Subject: Re: accessible drop down menus
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Terill Thompson's blog + site has great resources defining required features of an accessible dropdown and providing links to code sample:

http://staff.washington.edu/tft/tests/menus/
http://terrillthompson.com/blog/202

My favorite of the examples, as far as providing the best combination of user experience for screen reader, keyboard, zoom, and general expected usability, is

http://staff.washington.edu/tft/tests/menus/yui3/index.html

-Deborah

From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Sun, May 26 2013 12:55AM
Subject: Re: accessible drop down menus
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There is also a jQuery implementation available in the coding package at
https://github.com/accdc/tsg
Which supports submenus, horizontal and vertical keyboard interaction
models, and has been tested using JAWS 12 through 14 in IE and FF, using
NVDA in IE and FF, and using Voiceover on the iPhone/iPad.

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Subject: [WebAIM] accessible drop down menus


> Hi
>
> is there REALLY any such thing as Accessible Drop Down Menus? And if so,
> could you please point me or provide some code?
>
> thanks
>
>
> Sharon Terzian
> Webmistress/Sherlock Center @ RIC
> Adjunct Professor/School of Managment @ RIC
> http://www.sherlockcenter.org
> http://www.dubowitzsyndrome.net
> > > >

From: Terzian, Sharon
Date: Tue, May 28 2013 6:12AM
Subject: Re: accessible drop down menus
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Thank you, I've been playing with this and though understand the mechanics of it, I cannot get the menus into any kind of 'box' as the example shows (I just have a bunch of non-separated text with drop downs, though the hover colours seem to work)

Am I just missing a piece of this? I copies the source code, referenced the javascript, moved the .css into my own .css

?

Thanks

Sharon Terzian
Webmistress
Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities @ RIC
Adjunct Professor, Computer Information Systems
School of Management @ RIC
www.sherlockcenter.org



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Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 7:07 PM
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Terill Thompson's blog + site has great resources defining required features of an accessible dropdown and providing links to code sample:

http://staff.washington.edu/tft/tests/menus/
http://terrillthompson.com/blog/202

My favorite of the examples, as far as providing the best combination of user experience for screen reader, keyboard, zoom, and general expected usability, is

http://staff.washington.edu/tft/tests/menus/yui3/index.html

-Deborah