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Re: Inaccessible mega menu and WCAG2

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 16, 2015 7:59AM

> I know the accessibility community feels otherwise, but if I am always estatic if clicking on a top-level link takes me to the link.

Mallory, I agree this makes perfect sense -- in practice we've had trouble fitting this into the menu/aria-expanded paradigm. One you indicate menu status as expand/collapse then activating the link to take you to another page no longer makes sense. In my opinion we are lacking a proper navigation paradigm in ARIA that would allow for this. We really need something like a button menu -- a composite control that can be activated directly and also has a pop up menu.

Jonathan

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