- From: Geoff Deering <gdeering@acslink.net.au>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:26:17 +1000
- To: "Derek Featherstone" <feather@wats.ca>, <tcroucher@netalleynetworks.com>, "'James Craig'" <work@cookiecrook.com>
- Cc: "'WAI Interest Group'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Yes, you are right. As I just emailed Tom, I'm so used to seeing this type of implementation which doesn't work when scripts are turned on. It's great to see implementations that give developers the choice to implement something like this and it still address accessibility and usability issues. Great. Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Derek Featherstone Geoff wrote: > That is true, but if you turn scripts off, in this case it renders the menus > unfunctional and therefore inaccessible in every sense. Right the menus themselves don't function with scripting off. However... Geoff also quoted: > http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#tech-scripts > > 6.3 Ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other > programmatic objects are turned off orot supported. If this is not > possible, provide equivalent information on an alternative > accessible page. > [Priority 1] Exactly. "Ensure that pages are usable when scripts are turned off or not supported." So when scripts off, are the menus (or better yet, what is left of the menus) usable? Yes, they are... In most of these menu systems, the top level link is created to point to a page that contains links for all of the items that *would have shown* in the menu if scripts were on. As an example -- http://www.crossborder-management.com View it with scripting on. View it with scripting off. Either way, you can still get to all of the information. The links that are provided in the DHTML menus, are redundantly provided on the main content pages. Lets leave the obvious usability debate out of it... > But don't kid yourself that it meets WCAG1 requirements. There > are very good reasons for WCAG1 checkpoint 6.3 Actually, I'd say it is working exactly within WCAG checkpoint 6.3 Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone feather@wats.ca Web Accessibility Specialist / Co-founder of WATS.ca Web Accessibility Testing and Services http://www.wats.ca 1.866.932.4878 (North America)
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