- From: Anthony Ettinger <aettinger@sdsualumni.org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:50:02 -0800
- To: Terrence Wood <tdw@funkive.com>
- Cc: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <3fc6b2fb0512111550j18eb4e24s6a92e97ecb3db448@mail.gmail.com>
would access keys work here? On 12/11/05, Terrence Wood <tdw@funkive.com> wrote: > > > On 12 Dec 2005, at 12:35 AM, Anthony Ettinger wrote: > > you can include the much utilized "Skip to content" link at the top of > > the page. > > This *still* doesn't solve the problem of how to move up and down the > first level menu items. The standard keys (tab, for most of us) go > through the entire menu, one must use the arrow keys to skip the > submenus, and that is not obvious for users. In Opera the submenus do > not appear when focussed - i.e. there is no visual feedback that you > are on a submenu. > > If one collects the link list (usual practice for screen reader and > lynx users) every link on the page is returned - that's the site map > disguised as a menu - and that is just not helpful for finding your way > around. To illustrate: the udm4 homepage has 128 links, the download > link is number 113. If I want to read the section on expanding menus, > the worst case is I have to press tab round 270 times, or guess how > many times I need to press 'page down' to reduce my tabbing. > > kind regards > Terrence Wood. > > > > > On 12/10/05, Terrence Wood <tdw@funkive.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 8 Dec 2005, at 11:20 AM, Rebecca Cox wrote: > > > I agree - vast lists not a good thing. However, if you have to use > > > them, and also have to present them as dropdown menus, have you > > looked > > > at UDM? > > > > > > See http://www.udm4.com/ > > > > UDM is the nicest js menu around.... biggest problem is, apart from not > > working in Opera (the onfocus doesn't fire), how do you let users know > > how to use it (using arrow keys is not obvious)? > > > > And it still doesn't solve the issue of page weight due to having the > > site map load with every page. > > > > Drop down menu's - just avoid them. > > > -- Anthony Ettinger Signature: http://chovy.dyndns.org/hcard.html
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