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Re: Inaccessible mega menu and WCAG2

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From: _mallory
Date: Jan 19, 2015 12:39AM

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 04:02:59PM +0000, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
> The decision to not make the submenu appear on focus is deliberate and is designed to same keyboard users the trouble of needing to tab through many additional links.

Showing submenus visibly on focus does *not* require the keyboarder
to tab through all the submenu links, if the menu is built properly.

The advantage of showing submenus on focus is, as the other reply has
said, the user knows they exist. Having another separate functionality
like a separate "activate" button as proposed earlier has the
disadvantage that users never discover it, or get confused.

_m