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From: Carol Foster
Date: Mon, Jul 29 2002 1:27PM
Subject: more accessible rollover menus
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Has anyone heard anything about or had any experience with this new
attempt at tab-able rollover menus, at
http://www.projectseven.com/mxvision/experimental/index.htm? I tried it
with JAWS a few times, and it was a little confusing, but not too bad on
most attempts. Anyway, it is interesting!
Carol
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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Tue, Jul 30 2002 7:00AM
Subject: Re: more accessible rollover menus
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While the menu may be more compatible with a particular screen reader it is
still not accessible to people with low vision. When users configure
browsers to ignore author colors for text and use their own colors for text
make pull down menus very inaccessible, since text backgrounds of the pull
downs become transparent and the menu text usually overlaps with the
background text or graphics making the menu text un-readable.
Try it.
If you want mouse over effects use hover.
Most usability experts indicate that pull down menus on web sites are not
very usable. People don't expect them and reading menus is more difficult
than selecting links.
Jon
At 04:19 PM 7/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Has anyone heard anything about or had any experience with this new
>attempt at tab-able rollover menus, at
>http://www.projectseven.com/mxvision/experimental/index.htm? I tried it
>with JAWS a few times, and it was a little confusing, but not too bad on
>most attempts. Anyway, it is interesting!
>
>Carol
>
>(Apologies if you get this twice, but my first attempt to send it did
>not seem to work.)
>
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>Carol Foster, Web Developer
>Internet Publishing Group, Information Technology Services
>University of Massachusetts, President's Office
>phone: (413) 587-2130
>fax: (413) 587-2148
>mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>http://www.umass-its.net/ipg
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
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College of Applied Life Studies
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From: Carol Foster
Date: Tue, Jul 30 2002 8:30AM
Subject: Re: more accessible rollover menus
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Thanks for your comments, Jon. I did try it and it was definitely unreadable.
Carol
Jon Gunderson wrote:
> While the menu may be more compatible with a particular screen reader it is
> still not accessible to people with low vision. When users configure
> browsers to ignore author colors for text and use their own colors for text
> make pull down menus very inaccessible, since text backgrounds of the pull
> downs become transparent and the menu text usually overlaps with the
> background text or graphics making the menu text un-readable.
>
> Try it.
>
> If you want mouse over effects use hover.
>
> Most usability experts indicate that pull down menus on web sites are not
> very usable. People don't expect them and reading menus is more difficult
> than selecting links.
>
> Jon
>
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