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If you must use a dropdown menu, make sure it’s keyboard friendly
In: web resources
21 Dec 2009
Dropdown menus (a.k.a. flyout or DHTML menus) are not on my personal list of favourite features to use on a website. Many others seem to like them though, and that’s fine as long as such menus are implemented in an accessible way, which to a large extent means making them keyboard friendly.
Unfortunately, most dropdown menus I come across in the wild are not keyboard friendly.
Posted in Accessibility, Usability.
- Tags: DHTML, dhtml menus, Dropdown, dropdown menus, extent, flyout, keyboard, list, Read, usability
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4 Responses to If you must use a dropdown menu, make sure it’s keyboard friendly
Samantha
January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Well, I'm not sure if this'll work for your computer, because it works for the one I'm currently using, but I don't think it worked for my old ones.. So anyway:
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow = Turns screen upside-down.
Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow = Turns screen rightside-up.
Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow = Turn screen once, clockwise.
Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow = Turns screen once, counter-clockwise.
Hope that helps!
Best of luck~
webbiedave
February 9th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
You need to make sure that the script tag's src attribute doesn't contain For instance:
<script type="text/javascript"
Will fail when accessing through localhost on a machine that cannot access the internet. But:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/myscript.js"></script>
should work on both the localhost and the live server.
If this doesn't solve your problem, we will need to see your code.
Jane - Yahoo! Answers Team
March 15th, 2010 at 1:05 am
Zinfidel, thanks for reporting the problem with the menus. I've checked, and this is a known issue that we're working on.
Jane F.
Community Manager
DanKohner
March 19th, 2010 at 5:38 am
I have never had any problems with using it.