- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:58:04 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> From: Ball, Guy D [SMTP:Guy.Ball@unisys.com] > > I'm working on an article on web accessibility for a national e-business > publication and I need this group's help. > [DJW:] I'll try and reply on most points off list, but I'll mention one point here. > Java roll-over, fly-out menu to help select where you want to go [DJW:] I think you mean JavaScript, not Java. The main JavaScript problem these days is not roll-overs, and pop-ups are fairly rare. The real problem is where it is used to create side effects to following a link. Almost always, in my view, this can be done in a way that degrades gracefully and is functionally indistinguishable to a script user, but this is rarely done. Most commonly, the link has <a href="javascript:....>. Sometimes it uses onclick, with a functionless href (possibly javascript:, again. The result, in both cases, is an apparent link that is completely dead without javascript. I am pretty certain that the desired effect can always be achieved by making the actual link a normal href and using an onclick action that does what would have been in the javascript: URL, then returns false to stop the browser also trying to action the href (assuming that this would cause a problem). -- --------------------------- 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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