Re: [WSG] accessible drill-down into a nested list

[Paul Novitski]

Paul Novitski wrote:

Tell me if this would be a better scenario:  When you select a menu 
item, the page reloads with a set of breadcrumbs that spells out 
the history of selected menu items, such as:

Thanks very much, Ian, your response to my posting was exactly the 
kind of feedback I was looking for.  I think you may have mistaken my 
negative example for my recommendation, but I appreciate your remarks 
all the same.

At 02:57 AM 2/13/2006, Ian Anderson wrote:
I think you are correct to be concerned about the issue, but this may
not be the optimal solution. If you consider the requirements of a
screen reader user, their task is one of wading through immense amounts
of irrelevant stuff trying to find the thing of interest at that moment.

What's of most interest at the moment you're describing is hearing the
*new* options that are now available.
...

That's precisely the issue I'm aiming to address:  boiling the repeat 
information down to the bare minimum (menu selection "breadcrumbs" to 
tell you where you are in the menu tree) followed by the new options 
opened up by your most recent selection -- NOT repeating the whole 
damn menu each time, except perhaps at the bottom of markup where it 
can be read at the user's discretion.

Here's what I'm envisioning:
___________________________

[Site title (home page link)]
[Page title]

[link to complete navigation menu below]

[list of menu breadcrumbs (links):
        [selection from 1st level menu]
        [selection from 2nd level menu]
        ...
]

[list of new options (links)]

[page content]

[complete navigation menu]
___________________________

Warm regards,
Paul

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