RE: JAVASCRIPT rollovers

An alternative would be to add a submenu to each page that duplicates what
is on the popup menus.

Let's say you have a Menu Item called "Company," and when you roll over it,
a menu pops up with four subselections.

If Javascript is disabled, then the popup doesn't appear.  So if the user
clicks on "Company," then they should go to the Company page, which should
have a submenu on it with the four subselections that are avialable in the
popup menu to a user with Javascript turned on.  Make sense?

Randal


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Denise Wood [mailto:denise_wood@operamail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:57 PM
>To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
>Subject: JAVASCRIPT rollovers
>
>
>Our designers are often asked to develop interfaces that 
>feature rollovers using JAVASCRIPT. One of the popular 
>requests is for the rollover effect to display a list of items 
>which expands on the information that sits behind the link. 
>The idea being that authors can have just a few main links 
>from the home page, but users can easily find the deeper links 
>by rolling over each button and viewing the list of links 
>associated with each button.
>The designers can ensure the major links are accessible by 
>providing alternative text for each button and ensuring that 
>there are redundant links that can be accessed via keyboard 
>control. However, is there any way of making the more detailed 
>information that is only displayed with the rollover also 
>available in browsers with JAVASCRIPT disabled and for 
>keyboard users and the visually impaired. 
>The alt attribute could work but would be an unacceptable 
>length for alt text. Longdesc is not supported by all 
>browsers. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>        
>-- 
>
>
>Dr Denise L Wood
>
>Lecturer: Professional Development (online teaching and learning)
>and EASI online instructor 
>University of South Australia
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Received on Wednesday, 13 March 2002 10:49:23 UTC