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From: Susan Bignell
Date: Wed, Jul 17 2002 12:24PM
Subject: Re: MouseOver Menus
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I've been working on an accessible site where we wanted this functionality. However, the programmer was unable to make it work entirely satisfactorily while keeping the sizing of the left navigational text relative. Ran into some annoying page-loading behaviour. It works fine with fixed size, but that's not what we want. We've therefore abandoned the idea.
Susan Bignell
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From: Cohen, Lisa A.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: MouseOver Menus
Tim,
I have seen menus where there is dual functionality. Mouseover uses DHTML
to show a little box with several link selections, but if you tab to the
same place (link) and select it (hit Enter) you get an intermediate page
with the same several link selections. This way you have the fancy stuff
with alternate accessible navigation.
Lisa
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From: Tim Harshbarger [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:42 PM
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Subject: MouseOver Menus
Hi,
There is a type of web-based menu that people call by different names. I
have heard them referred to as drop down menus, mouseover menus, pop-up
menus, etc. Whenever the user pauses the mouse over a hot spot on the
page, the menu appears giving the user a list of links from which to
choose.
From: Susan Bignell
Date: Wed, Jul 17 2002 1:20PM
Subject: Re: MouseOver Menus
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I'm not sure what sort of code our programmer was using - meaning
whether that's how he was positioning the d-menus anyhow. On page
load all the text would flash in at a quite large size before
assuming the correct sizes. I think perhaps a delay in getting
through the style sheet, though we've optimised it as far as
possible for speedy rendering. However, without the dynamic menus
this problem is no longer an issue. And the original code works
fine on other sites that don't use relative sizing in the menu
text.
Thanks!
Susan
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From: < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >; "Steven Splinter"
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Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: MouseOver Menus
> It's possible to write a javascript to fix that, but it's big,
bulky,
> and will reload the page every time you resize the page. It
works by
> finding the XY coordinates of the element (say, a link) you
want the
> mouseover to appear next to, and using that as the XY
coordinates for
> the layer. And if JS's turned off, well, you wouldn't get the
mouseovers
> anyways.
>
> Susan Bignell wrote:
>
> >> I've been working on an accessible site where we wanted this
> >> functionality. However, the programmer was unable to make it
work
> >> entirely satisfactorily while keeping the sizing of the left
> >> navigational text relative. Ran into some annoying
page-loading
> >> behaviour. It works fine with fixed size, but that's not
what we want.
> >> We've therefore abandoned the idea. Susan Bignell
> >
> --
> Steven Splinter
> Web Developer, CITS Internet Development
> University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
> (508) 910-6483
> AIM- sevenjades
>
>
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