Re: javascript menus and accessibility

Another problem that seems to arise more often with javascripty sites is the
lack of attention to meaningful URLs. This might be due to the
extra-noticable lack of attention paid to non-visual mechanisms when coding
pop-up menus.

Yes, it's a problem with straight HREFs, too, but my friend has told me
that, for example, http://www.audible.com presents a nightmare for a screen
reader (and he's pretty good with it, too).

That site has numerous other problems besides (ironic for a site that might
leverage an audience of visually-impaired persons) including NO
functionality without javascript, but the meaningless URLs that get read off
by (at least) JAWS is what I wanted to point out.

David Holstius
holstius@msu.edu

Received on Friday, 15 December 2000 14:19:29 UTC