- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:11:42 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
There was a thread back around the beginning of april about text menus that popped up when the mouse passed over them (the celebrated "mouseover" action), and how to make them accessible. The discussion seemed to end at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2000AprJun/0015.html without an answer. There's a simple way to make a functional equivalent of mouseover on a object if there isn't something already defined for clicking on that object. Just make that object a link so when you click on it it brings up a new page with content equivalent to what pops up with the mouseover. What if the button already does something, say it's a link and the mouseover brings up summary info that helps you decide if you want to click that link? In that case you could have an additional link you'd click to bring up the info. Similar to a D link. Perhaps an "M" link? You could make the "M" links visible or not under control of a style sheet. Also, the page brought up by the M link would have a link to what clicking on the original object would have produced. Instead of an M link you could have a transparent image to which you could add appropriate alt text. Hmm... - except a transparent image wouldn't be suitable for sighted people with motor disabilities. Of course, you also have to be sure the average user knows about this stuff. There's also the long description but that may be used for other stuff and isn't yet implemented on all browsers. Len -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and Department of Electrical Engineering Temple University 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122 kasday@acm.org http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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