I work for the government and am wondering if you could help me figure out how
I can (or if it's even possible) make the spry menu features in Dreamweaver
Section 508 Compliant, so that people who have screen readers or Java Script
turned off would still be able to access the spry menu items. When we run the
pages that have spry menus through Dreamweaver's accessibility report it just
relays to us the fact that we are using Java script and we need to provide a
"noscript" tag. Do you have any ideas on how we could accommodate this in our
new web site design?

Thanks! Eleanor

> "noscript" tag. Do you have any ideas on how we could accommodate this in
> our
> new web site design?

If you turn off javascript in your web browser and view your site, can you
still see the menu? If so, then no problems.

A good javascript menu system should be building the menu from semantic
markup already on the page.

Personally, though, I'd suggest trying to not use fly-out menu systems if
you don't need to. Or if you do use them, be sure that the site works
without them.

-Darrel

You may want to post this over in the Spry forums:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/home.html - Spry Homepage
http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_spry_pr1_forum - Spry Forums

The only reason I am saying this is because of 2 things. First, Spry does not
update with the Adobe products because it is technically a beta so all updates
are there (it gives you a package with samples and a Extension to install which
puts an option under the Sites menu to update Spry). Most importantly I am
telling you this because Adobe staff does check the forum so if there is
something that Spry should be doing that it is not, they would be able to make
changes happen there because they are active in the Labs unlike this
user-to-user support forum.

See if this article helps you:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorial...ated/index.htm


--
Al Sparber - PVII
http://www.projectseven.com
Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets
http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators


"luchenburg" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g684j9$7jr$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I work for the government and am wondering if you could help me figure out
>how
> I can (or if it's even possible) make the spry menu features in
> Dreamweaver
> Section 508 Compliant, so that people who have screen readers or Java
> Script
> turned off would still be able to access the spry menu items. When we run
> the
> pages that have spry menus through Dreamweaver's accessibility report it
> just
> relays to us the fact that we are using Java script and we need to provide
> a
> "noscript" tag. Do you have any ideas on how we could accommodate this in
> our
> new web site design?
>
> Thanks! Eleanor
>
>
>