[Sigia-l] IA Java alternatives

[Karl Groves]

First - what you really mean is "JavaScript". There's a distinct
difference that is more than just semantic.

Second - these things have *serious* usability and accessibility
complications and should be avoided altogether, IMO. 
If somehow, someone in senior management just has to have the silly
things, then use "document.write" to write the menu in the first place.
Then, write a redundant list of links using <noscript>

Note that this only solves one problem: people with JavaScript off or
whose browser doesn't even recognize JavaScript (IOW, text-only
browsers)

Accessibility is NOT just about blind people.  People with even minor
motor impairments have serious problems with those things as well. For
someone with palsy or Parkinson's, you can just about forget them
altogether because they'll never be able to use that thing.

But beyond just accessibility, they're often described as "slippery" and
"a pain in the a**" by regular users.



Karl L. Groves
AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo screen name: "karlcore"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
> Of Elisa Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:59 AM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] IA Java alternatives
> 
> My company is doing a series of graphics with fly-out
> menus. For a sample of something similar, go to:
> http://www.analog.com/Dynamic/ISC/ISCDisplay.asp?SignalChainID=SC1047
> 
> Because the fly-out menus are being designed in Java,
> we've decided that we need to offer an non-Java
> alternative. Have any of you developed standards for
> non-Java alternatives you are willing to share?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> elisa
> 
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