Re: DHTML drop down menus ADA compliant

Another is that :hover is only relevant to a mouse or similar pointer, 
and people just forget to provide access for keyboard.

cheers

Chaals


On Thursday, Jan 15, 2004, at 10:42 Europe/Rome, P.H.Lauke wrote:

>> Actually I have seen some claims that the whole thing can be
>> done using CSS with no need to have scripts at all? does
>> anyone know of examples?
>
> One of the problems of an all CSS approach is that IE only supports
> the :hover pseudo class on links, while other modern browsers support
> it fairly well on most, if not all, other elements.
> So in some situations JS is necessary, but the JS can be used to
> supplement the pure CSS solution and make it work in IE
> (as happens on http://devedge.netscape.com/ for instance - they 
> actually
> have an article on there somewhere explaining how/why they did it).
>
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Received on Thursday, 15 January 2004 05:03:07 UTC