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Re: Inaccessible mega menu and WCAG2

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From: John Hicks
Date: Jan 16, 2015 7:27AM

If you "click" (press enter) on the top level does the menu descend?



2015-01-16 15:05 GMT+01:00 Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> 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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