Hi Nick,

> I feel the same way however I'm working on tidying a variation of
> drop-down navigation at http://www.amcs.org.au right now and this one
> does have some benefits.

The problem with this method is that it confuses the user. I looked at this
site last night with your previous problem and was very surprised by the
action when I clicked on About AMCS.

Clicking on a navbar item should do what all other navbars do, take you to
the page. How would a screen reader cope with this? You followed a link and
then you've gone nowhere.

Visually, you can see that the menu changed and nothing more but if you're
not looking at the screen you assume you have gone to the about page.

These things really should be done in a hover or onmouseover state so that a
click follows the link. Same with keyboard operation (tabbing through and
hitting enter).

BTW I really love the swell banner on http://www.underwater.com.au/

P


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