Sorry, posted this to the wrong list.
Feel free to jump in (or not) - it's the ol' drop-downs are bad vs.
down-downs are good debate.
kind regards
Terrence Wood.
On 12 Dec 2005, at 8:45 AM, Terrence Wood wrote:
On 12 Dec 2005, at 12:35 AM, Anthony Ettinger wrote:
you can include the much utilized "Skip to content" link at the top
of the page.
This *still* doesn't solve the problem of how to move up and down the
first level menu items. The standard keys (tab, for most of us) go
through the entire menu, one must use the arrow keys to skip the
submenus, and that is not obvious for users. In Opera the submenus do
not appear when focussed - i.e. there is no visual feedback that you
are on a submenu.
If one collects the link list (usual practice for screen reader and
lynx users) every link on the page is returned - that's the site map
disguised as a menu - and that is just not helpful for finding your
way around. To illustrate: the udm4 homepage has 128 links, the
download link is number 113. If I want to read the section on
expanding menus, the worst case is I have to press tab round 270
times, or guess how many times I need to press 'page down' to reduce
my tabbing.
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