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Re: Accessible Superfish-like drop-down menus?

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From: Bossley, Peter A.
Date: Jun 6, 2017 1:28PM

It doesn't make sense to me for a menu to auto-expand on focus, in fact an argument could be made that was a violation in and of itself. The Web Experience Toolkit has really good examples of menubar and sub-menus that work really well.
Just my take.


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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7200)
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 12:01 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible Superfish-like drop-down menus?

Hi all,

I tried a quick search in the archives and I didn't see anything too current on this, so apologies if I've missed something.

Our developers have put some drop-down menus onto some sites in our Druple environment.
As a JAWS user in IE or Firefox, I run into an annoying situation as I Tab through the link in these menus. If I Tab forward through them, I hear each links in the submenu, and then whatever links come after that submenu. However, if I start reverse-Tabbing back through the links, I end up completely skipping the submenu links.

The first menu they tried was called a Nice Menu I think. They switched to Superfish, since it's supposed to be 508 compliant from what they read. I'm still having this problem.

So, I guess my question is, is this just standard behavior for an accessible drop-down menu that I just don't happen to like, or is this a problem that can be fixed by tweaking the menu or trying another solution?

Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

Courtney