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Re: Inaccessible mega menu and WCAG2

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 16, 2015 7:05AM

On 16/01/2015 13:59, Lynn Holdsworth wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a site that has a mega-menu that drops down on hover.
> It's also reasonably usable with a screenreader, in that after tabbing
> to an item on the top menu, I can tab through and activate its submenu
> items.
>
> But while tabbing through the submenus, these aren't visible on the
> screen, so keyboard users are likely to think the page or perhaps even
> the Tab key isn't working.
>
> I can obviously fail this under 2.4.7 - Focus Visible.
>
> And I think also 2.4.1 - Bypass Blocks.
>
> But that doesn't seem to cover the issue properly. Where else can I fail it?

I'd say 2.1.1 Keyboard as well, as the functionality of visibly opening
the menu is not available to a sighted keyboard-only user.


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