Would a menu like this cause issues with screen readers?

[Asino]

I was wondering if anyone has any experience of access for people with sight disability.

For my menus I normally use a ul, li approach, but recently needed to add a something extra and decided to use a dl,dt,dd approach. The dt holding the link and the dd a few words of explanation about the link.

This works fine for sighted people, but it occurred to me that a screen reader will come across the link, then the extra few words of explanation, by which stage the link has been passed and the user would have to go back to select the link.

I could put the extra explanation in a title as well, but then the screen reader would read it twice, once as a title and then again in the dd, which could be irritating to a user.

Any help or suggestions please.

Asino

[David Harrison]

I wouldn't have thought that the definition list way would cause too many problems, but if you're really concerned, just make the description into a link instead of the text in the <dt>.

[Asino]

Thanks lavalamp you've put me on the right course. In fact, looking at it, I am going to use the dt for the description and the dd for the link; which is the 'wrong' way round in a traditional sense, but trying it out it works well. I am still playing with left/right alignment and indentation, but as a method it gives me everything I need.
Asino.

[Robert Wellock]

It would most likely say: Definition list, Definition: A, Definition Term: B... which isn’t really an idea solution. The title attribute should be designed to give additional information.

[Webnauts]

Once we are talking about lists here, you might would like to have a look here: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/