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Re: Inaccessible mega menu and WCAG2

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 16, 2015 8:53AM

On 16/01/2015 14:59, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> 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.

Would having a link (to the top-level page) followed by a discrete
secondary link (which acts as disclosure widget for the menu itself) be
problematic? I know it splits the functionality in two, but seems a fair
compromise to me (and for mouse interaction, make both open the menu on
hover)

P
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