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Re: keyboard navigation of menus

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Jul 31, 2013 10:22AM

As an FYI, regarding the sample at
http://staff.washington.edu/tft/tests/menus/yui3/index.html
The menu items that open submenus are lacking aria-haspopup=true on the
nodes with role=menuitem. As a result, the word "submenu" is not conveyed to
screen reader users, making the structure confusing to navigate in JAWS and
NVDA.

You can see the difference in feedback by testing the menu at
http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Menus/Vertical%20(Internal%20Content)/demo.htm
Which does provide the correct feedback using JAWS and NVDA in both IE and
FF. This is part of the AccDC TSG at
http://whatsock.com/tsg/



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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] keyboard navigation of menus


> Terrill Thompson has a blog post of excellent
> examples that use a combination of tab plus arrow:
>
> http://staff.washington.edu/tft/tests/menus/
>
> I'm personally a fan of
>
> http://staff.washington.edu/tft/tests/menus/yui3/index.html
>
> And I am about to start using it on a production site. Keep in
> mind I am going to have to make a clear documentation of how they
> work and link to it from somewhere on the page about
> accessibility, because users won't expect this behavior. I like
> how this one works in both keyboard and screen reader.
>
> -Deborah
>
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Jon Brundage wrote:
>
>> Hello Group-
>>
>> In the situation where a web site has a main menu bar which opens
>> submenus, is there any consensus on the desired behavior for the visual
>> keyboard user? Is it better to have the TAB key move through all the
>> items sequentially, have special commands to open the submenus, or go to
>> the parent pages and navigate to the sub-content from there?
>>
>> Opinions appreciated! Thanks
>>
>> Jon
>> >> >> >>
>
> > >