Standards and Accessibility - navigation lists
A check on the value of standards for accessibility ...
"After my crisis of faith about whether accessibility is really enhanced by standards, I read an interesting report into how blind people really surf, and was inspired to do my own investigations into the best way to code accessible navigation menus.
Here’s my report and mp3s of how Jaws 6/ Win XP reads out the different ways of presenting menus. Each test validates to xhtml 1 transitional, although only one is properly “semantic”.
I checked out three different kinds of navigation bars:
a) a vertical table of links, each in its own cell
b) a single table cell containing an unordered list of links, with a sublist as a child of one of the list items
c) a list as in (b) above but with the list contained in a div rather than a table cell." continued ... (Via Bruce Lawson)
"After my crisis of faith about whether accessibility is really enhanced by standards, I read an interesting report into how blind people really surf, and was inspired to do my own investigations into the best way to code accessible navigation menus.
Here’s my report and mp3s of how Jaws 6/ Win XP reads out the different ways of presenting menus. Each test validates to xhtml 1 transitional, although only one is properly “semantic”.
I checked out three different kinds of navigation bars:
a) a vertical table of links, each in its own cell
b) a single table cell containing an unordered list of links, with a sublist as a child of one of the list items
c) a list as in (b) above but with the list contained in a div rather than a table cell." continued ... (Via Bruce Lawson)
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