[wp-hackers] Lingering UI follow-up #1

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Rich Pedley <elflop at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/8 Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com>:
>
>>> The current design doesn't work as a lot of people have to scroll up
>>> and down, anything that stops that is a plus. However all this talk
>>> about the menu does make be wonder if it will be keyboard accessible
>>> or not. I really hope it is...
>>
>> The menu will be accessible (you mean tab-accessible, yeah?).
>
> yes! A lot of expandable menus aren't too good for keyboard users. You
> can end up tabbing through loads of links, sometimes not visible on
> the screen, and sometimes you get top level links that don't actually
> go anywhere, but are just there to expand a hidden menu - and
> sometimes these just don't work.
>
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I think having sortable tabs might help a lot in this case. If not
implemented in the core, a plugin will surely come to the rescue.

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