- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:56:54 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> From: Joe Clark [SMTP:joeclark@electricseed.com] > > * Do current screen readers even recognize when a DHTML menu drops down? > [DJW:] What's a DHTML menu? There is no such element in HTML! One problem with such attempts to simulate Windows behaviour is that there are no standards for doing it; it certainly doesn't represent proper structural markup. I think this question would only make sense in the context of one particular way of doing them, or in terms of the HTML generated by one particular version of one named authoring tool. If I remember correctly, script alternatives are a priority 1 requirement in the WAI guidelines, so any site with any pretensions to accessibility will work with "DHTML" disabled, and I would think it best for anyone with screen readers (as well as those concerned about security) to disable it. In my experience, sites that are heavily into Javascript are going to a problem for anybody to navigate; this isn't fundamentally true, but the people who design navigable sites tend not to feel the need for heavy scripting. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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