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Re: Inaccessible mega menu and WCAG2

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From: John Hicks
Date: Jan 16, 2015 8:10AM

I fully agree, but just wondering whether they had implemented *some* means
of displaying the menu via the keyboard.

I am faced daily with the conundrum of bloated and "SEO-motivated" mega
menus.... I hate them.

If your menu expands on mouse over, then it should do so also on keyboard
focus. ... but what if you don't want to look at that menu but another one
.... ESC to close and push the focus to the next top level element? Would
be good, but I have never seen it working and it would not be intuitive to
a blind user... (unless you put it in writing).


2015-01-16 16:11 GMT+01:00 _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 03:27:52PM +0100, John Hicks wrote:
> > If you "click" (press enter) on the top level does the menu descend?
>
> 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.
>
> It's an excellent fallback if, for some reason, some user, some combo
> of OS/UA/AT/whatever, the dropdowns can't be activated, because the
> link destination *should* have direct access to that stuff.
>
> But, my opinion as a frustrated web user.
>
> _mallory
> > > >