RE: DHTML and accessibility

Teddy:
Thanks for the suggestions.
I just went and checked your site. Pretty interesting.  Are you blind? Do
you use a screen reader? What is the .ro? Romania?
Regards,
Dominique

-----Original Message-----
From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:orasnita(at)home.ro] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:21 PM
To: Dominique Clawson; 
Subject: Re: DHTML and accessibility


The screen readers can't read any menu.
The blind visitors that need a screen reader can't use the mouse to hover a
link to show the menu. Each link should point to a standard page that
contains the links with all the options from the menu, because they won't be
accessible otherwise. If when hovering the mouse over a link, a menu
appears, it is not a problem, but the link should not work only with
Javascript, because some browsers don't even use Javascript.

Teddy,
Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/
Email: orasnita(at)home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominique Clawson" <Dominique.Clawson(at)colorado.edu>
To: <aware-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:25 PM
Subject: DHTML and accessibility


Hello:

My question is: how does a reader read a submenu that's triggered from
JavaScript and is located on another layer?

This also brings me to the following question: are layers readable by a
screen reader.  I use Dreamweaver and use a lot of layers but I don't
convert them to tables. W3C discourages the use of tables and favors instead
the positioning of elements with CSS.

I'm getting ready to redesign our site completely (Yippee!!!). I have a plan
to have a PLAN, instead of cleaning up later. (-:

Thanks for your thoughts and comments,

Dominique

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