Tabbing to Menu

shong · Post by **shong** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:05 pm

Hi Ruth,
I am taking over for someone on the Milonic menu for our site. Can I download the free version and embed license info into the JS file or do I need to log in with our credentials to get the licensed version? I have the license number but do not have the log in information.

Post by **Ruth** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:21 pm

Hi,

I'd contact marty[at]milonic[dot]com with the license info, the circumstances etc and see about setting up a login for you. You do need to be logged in to get the licensed version for the site.

Ruth

shong · Post by **shong** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:27 pm

Hi Ruth,
I updated our menu to the latest version. Now when I hover over the menu, I am getting an error. _Wz1 is undefined. This JS error is happening in the MMenuDom.js file. Any idea on what is causing the error?

Post by **Ruth** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:34 pm

Hi,

I need to see the page to see what's going on. There's no way from code I can tell

Ruth

shong · Post by **shong** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:36 pm

Hi Ruth,
Ok, so I implemented a test menu using the latest build. As soon as I removed he Home menu item, the tabbing stopped working. This is the bug i have been in contact with John about. Andy was supposed to be working on it but I have not heard on where they are with this. Our software does not have a home menu so the tabbing will needs to work without having a home menu item. Can you see when this bug might be fixed?

Post by **Ruth** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:40 pm

Hi,

OK, now I understand, you must not have any link at all as the first item of the menu. That's the only way I could reproduce the problem.

Andy is working on it. It may not be a simple solution, it may require a lot of programming.

I have figured out a workaround but I don't know if you would want to use it or if it's viable for you. I placed this as the first item.

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aI("title=empty item;status=empty item;text=&nbsp;;padding=0px;offcolor=#eeeeee;oncolor=#eeeeee;fontsize=2px;url=#;separatorsize=0;onbgcolor=#eeeeee;onborder=0px;itemwidth=1;");

The padding=0, fontsize=2px, and itemwidth=1 keeps the item so small as to be almost invisible. The separatorsize=0 prevents any separator showing after the item, the colors listed [based on the offbgcolor [silver] of the sample menu] and the onborder=0 makes it so that nothing shows up when the item gets tabbed. It does tab there, nothing I tried stops that, but no color changes, no border shows up, and there is no actual link to any page.

I know it's not a perfect solution, but while Andy is working on it, this does allow the keypress to be used and work without putting in an actual link.

It works in Netscape, IE, Firefox.

Ruth

shong · Post by **shong** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:52 pm

Ruth,
I am now getting this error when I include the keypress.js file.

Line 125 in the keypress.js file.

m_[...] is null or not an object. Here is the line of code that it is failing on:

Code:
function KPcrawlChildren(_mn)
{

var _ar=_m[_mn][0]

Any ideas?

Post by **Ruth** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:09 am

Hi,

I'm sorry, but I am not a programmer. I have no idea what any kind of error means, except the one where one of the menu files didn't get called.

I just did the test to give you the code I made and I got no errors, or I couldn't have gotten a code that works.

If you would give a test page, or post your menu_data.js file and your html, css code and your menu version here I could make a page and use that version and test it, but without that, it's not something I can answer or figure out.

Ruth

shong · Post by **shong** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:37 pm

Hi Ruth,
Does the Milonic menu support screen readers? I have our menu working using the keyboard but when I tried using the screen reader, it could not read any of the menu or sub menus.

Post by **Ruth** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:17 pm

I believe that's a screen reader issue, since they were able to convince the world that laws should force browser to be compatible with the millions of them out there. [My personal opinion: So nice for them, since they do not have to compete with each other much now and therefore their development falls behind something like the different browsers that must compete with each other and improve in order to remain viable... as I said, just a personal opinion]

You might check the following links for information on screen readers:

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/ac ... y_no14.htm [this is an old article but gives a pretty good basic background on the various types of screen readers.

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=Sc ... Visibility

Ruth

shong · Post by **shong** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:00 pm

Does Milonic support the JAWS screen reader?

shong · Post by **shong** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:46 pm

Hello,
I have not received a reply post about if Milonic menu supports the JAWS screen reader.

stephen702 · Post by **stephen702** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:54 pm

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