Welcome to the group and the world of web standards. Hope you will enjoy. I guess the best place to first direct you to in regards to popup menus would be this page: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ Here we are dealing with a dropdown menu that is build in web standards, and therefore rather accessible. Although anything on a website that changes dynamically is always relying on users to have a browser that supports it - so in this example we require browsers that support the hover effect or javascript. In that respect: if you do want a dropdown menu, always make sure that your website can still be navigated if the dropdown menu did not show up. I don't know much about the code created by Fireworks, but I am sure somebody else can comment on that for you. Cheers,
Andreas. Andreas Boehmer User Experience Consultant Phone: (03) 9417 0468 Mobile: (0411) 097 038 http://www.addictiveMedia.com.au Consulting | Accessibility | Usability | Development ________________________________ From: Devendra Shrikhande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 22 January 2005 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question Hello I am a newbie (to web standards) and have been inspired by Zeldman's "Designing with Web Standards". Till now I have been using Fireworks to create popup menus for web sites. Would welcome feedback from this group on: 1- How do the popup menus from Fireworks correspond to working towards XHTML -transitional compliance. 2- If the above does not validate (would not surprise me if it did not!) would welcome suggestions on other options for generating pop-up menus with XHTML-transitional compliance. Also how do popup menus work in the context of accessibility. Look forward to your advice. ¤ devendra ¤ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
