- From: <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:01:43 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
We have been talking about accessible techniques for JavaScript and I have a good one to discuss. I have come across the use of JavaScript and Style sheets to create what is in effect a select menu, but with very different and useful visual look. It has been referred to as Dynamic HTML among other things. It is simply a technique that uses the STYLE visibility: hidden on a DIV (or some other) element, then when a user clicks on the link with a onclick showit() JavaScript function call changes the visibility from hidden to visible and uses absolute positioning to place the image map or table of text links right under or near the original link. I think a public page that does this is the http://www.microsoft.com pages viewed in IE 4.x or above. My question: Is there a similar proven technique that could be used with the SELECT menu and style attributes so that, for example, a long list of choices shows up as a three column list of choices instead of a long single column list of choices? Could the background, borders, and fonts be changed? Regards, Phill Jenkins IBM Accessibility Center - Special Needs Systems
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