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Re: Keyboard navigation using arrows only

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Sep 2, 2014 5:52PM

>When a link tag has the aria attribute aria-haspopup="true", JAWS actually announces the words "has submenu". So really, the arrow
is only of value to sighted users.

That's not true actually.

Regarding ARIA Menus, the Windows platform UI equivalent for this is documented at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.contextmenu.aspx

When an ARIA Menu is constructed strictly according to spec, It causes specific events to fire in the browser, which Assistive
Technologies then use to ensure accessibility by customizing feedback and behavior.

This process is documented in the UAIG, at
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/#mapping_events_menus

If you try the following demo using JAWS in IE or FF, you will see this in action:
http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Menus/Vertical%20(Internal%20Content)/demo.htm