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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 16, 2015 7:59AM

> I know the accessibility community feels otherwise, but if I am always estatic if clicking on a top-level link takes me to the link.

Mallory, I agree this makes perfect sense -- in practice we've had trouble fitting this into the menu/aria-expanded paradigm. One you indicate menu status as expand/collapse then activating the link to take you to another page no longer makes sense. In my opinion we are lacking a proper navigation paradigm in ARIA that would allow for this. We really need something like a button menu -- a composite control that can be activated directly and also has a pop up menu.

Jonathan

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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 10:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Inaccessible mega menu and WCAG2

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 03:27:52PM +0100, John Hicks wrote:
> If you "click" (press enter) on the top level does the menu descend?

I know the accessibility community feels otherwise, but if I am always estatic if clicking on a top-level link takes me to the link.

It's an excellent fallback if, for some reason, some user, some combo of OS/UA/AT/whatever, the dropdowns can't be activated, because the link destination *should* have direct access to that stuff.

But, my opinion as a frustrated web user.

_mallory