On Jul 29, 2011, at 4:59 AM, Nancy Johnson wrote: > Other issues have come up non-508 and it was extremely challenging to > style each level with and without a link. > > Then I discovered "Superfish" and wanted to upgrade the technology, > however it won't work for keyboard only users without a link. > > Question... Is it appropiate to use <a href="#"> or any other means to > indicate no link? there is no onclick event straight html. Is there > something else?
I think you are confusing with the link (because of drop-down menu?), content and keyboard navigation. 1. Keyboard navigation allows a user to tab through links within a page. If a section of content consists of links and content, it simply looks for the next link. It couldn't magically provide tab-able navigation within the content if there is no herf link whether the content is in a drop-down menu (or similar effect) or not. 2. If a phrase, a sentence of paragraph or a li element is not a link (to somewhere) and it's not used to trigger a JS effect within the page (such as tab, accordion, collapsable, or popup), you should never use <a href="#">. 3. A "drop-down menu" is a conventional set of navigational elements that group together within a section using show/hide sort of effect. Maybe you can still call it "drop-down menu" if it's a mixed of navigational elements and content, but IMHO the name doesn't matter because it boils down to this: using JS effect to control a section of the page that has both navigational elements and content. What matters is how you go about doing it right that doesn't add obstacle for the users, and for an effect like this, you probably don't want to use suckerfish or superfish or any drop-down menu script but something simple that controls the show/hide, then use absolute position to control the hidden div so when it triggers (either by hover or click or keyboard tab), it mimics a drop-down effect instead of collapsable. Google jQuery show hide you should be able to find plenty examples. tee ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
