Re: drop downs

Hi Roger,

At the end of last year I made a reach for the Holy Grail of dropdown
menus -- namely, ones that are keyboard and mouse accessible and that
are still usable when javascript or css (or both) are off.

I came up with something demoed at
http://www.choff.net/jQuery-Plugins/ajaxmenu and documented at
http://wiki.github.com/mistermuckle/jQuery-Plugins/ajaxmenu.

Note that I have not so much as looked at the code for over six
months. There are no guarantees as to how well it works or that it has
been tested to any significant degree, but there it is if you or
anybody else wants it or wants to improve upon it.

Best,

Chris Hoffman

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Roger Hudson <rhudson@usability.com.au> wrote:
> Hi
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> I have been looking at horizontal main navigation where each navigation
> item/link has a drop down that can be used to go to pages in the section. I
> seen examples which I think could be considered accessible, but I haven’t
> come across one that is both keyboard accessible and very screen reader
> friendly. The Mozilla site (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/) is probably the
> nearest I have seen. It allows me to tab from navigation item to navigation
> item and use the arrow key to move through the drop down choices. However,
> when I used it with JAWS 9 I couldn’t use the arrow keys.
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> Can anyone suggest any other examples I should look at.
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> Many thanks
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> Roger
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> Roger Hudson
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