On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, [email protected] wrote:

> So, instead of a list you have to alt-click to get more than one tag, how
> about something more like a tag cloud where you can click on as many as
> you like and it puts them up their for you?

In theory, something like that could be made accessible; in
practice, such functionality is almost always JavaScript
dependent.

The three easiest ways to guarantee accessibility are to say

-- Will this functionality work if my mouse isn't plugged in?
-- Will this functionality work if JavaScript is turned off?
-- Will this functionality work if I can't see colors or images?

(There are plenty of exceptions but those three questions will
cover 90% of cases for most physical disabilities.)

In order to make a clickable tag cloud accessible, it would have
to be one that didn't use dynamic page rewriting with AJAX, and
that would be absolutely doable, but would definitely look clunky
by modern web design standards.

-jadelennox
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