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Re: menus that appear after mouse hovers on link

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From: Brendan McKeon
Date: Aug 14, 2012 3:08PM

One comment on the suggested fix:

Keep in mind that keyboard users can both tab and shift-tab to move focus
forwards and backwards. If you have off-screen elements that are focusable,
they need to be made visible when they take focus, regardless of how focus
got there. So in the case below, you would also want to show the menu if the
focus moved into the parent UL. Without this, a sighted keyboard user could
shift-tab back into one of the offscreen links, and end up confused as to
why focus is not visible on the screen.

Brendan.

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