RE : Call for feedback on accessible DHTML menus

Hello, on my experience the two menus you developped are not perfect but the
first is not so accessible for partially sighted.
If you turn of CSS, menu become unreadable as you can see on the picture
join at this mail.
The second problem, for me, is that you can't navigate with only the
keyboard and tab touch.the menus open and close always.

The second one is better because this CSS problem is not exist.
To make it better i think you should use more focus to help people who read
the page with a braille display an jaws for example.

I'll try to explain it

When you only use keyboard to navigate you can open all sub menus, but the
focus is always on the top of main menu. You can do ( i dont know how
exactly but a society we work with do it on his project), an action to put
focus on the first link of the sub menu you open. A blind expert test it and
find it very accessible to use.

I don't test it with Lynx so my tests are not complete but ...


yoan SIMONIAN
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-----Message d'origine-----
De : w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] De la part
de Access Systems
Envoyé : mardi 9 septembre 2003 20:58
À : James Craig
Cc : WAI Mailing list (E-mail)


On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, James Craig wrote:

> 
> 
> I developed these menus back in the Spring and have recently updated 
> them (see September 4th update info). I'd love your comments on their 
> accessibility rating.
> 
>    Menus:
>    http://www.cookiecrook.com/bugtests/menus/menus.htm

they seemed to be easy to use and follow using Linux and Lynx

Bob

> 
>    Related blog entry:
>    http://www.cookiecrook.com/?archive=200309#cc106270599882351322
> 
> Thanks,
> James Craig
> 
> 

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