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Re: building accessible javascript accordions?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Aug 1, 2013 6:39PM

There is a difference between accordion menus and accordion content. Our experience of user testing is that screen reader users can usually cope with accordion menus, if only because they can ignore the menu and select the top-level menu item as long as the resulting page contains the same links that are in the menu.

However, such redundancy does not exist with accordion content, and users frequently have no idea what is happening when they operate an accordion link. We have yet to test any accordion content that has ARIA markup so I cannot comment on how effective this might be. However, the previous discussions are not encouraging.

Steve Green