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From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Jan 16, 2015 8:17AM

Jonathan,

Sorry, but I am confused as to what you think is a good implementation of a drop down menu system. Do folks feel that the drop down implmentations that are generally supported by theaccessibility development community where the menu system is one tab stop and ARIA tags are suppported so the interface looks essentially like a native application are more usable by the end community then the menu at a site like
www.TempleRodefShalom.org?
Thanks,


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On Jan 16, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> 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.
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> 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.
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