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Re: Making this type of navigation accessible

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Apr 11, 2015 11:41AM

I have the same experience. I get stuck in the search box, I cannot even
access the radio buttons

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Ryan E. Benson

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:24 AM, _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> As a note, the only way I can even get my focus into the page is to
> try to right-click or hold-button-mouse-click a focusable on the page
> so I can tab further. I have not discovered how to otherwise get past
> the header on that page, with the radio buttons.
>
> _mallory
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:29:01PM -0500, L Snider wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I was looking at a navigation structure on this page:
> > http://demo.accesstomemory.org/chelmsford-womens-institute-2
> >
> > I think most people call this navigation structure, a treeview.
> >
> > It creates the list 'dynamically' so you don't see everything at once.
> The
> > structure may be problematic with screen readers, on mobile in
> > particular...They can't get to the levels below the file level (ie:
> Plants
> > is okay, but nothing under that shows), and they may not be able to get
> to
> > the levels that are 'hidden' (one presses the little icon with the ...) .
> >
> > Any ideas on how to make this more accessible?
> >
> > I believe this is one way to do it?
> >
> http://accessibleculture.org/articles/2013/02/not-so-simple-aria-tree-views-and-screen-readers/
> >
> > I have not worked with this nav style before, so any advice or
> > recommendations would be hugely appreciated!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Lisa
> > > > > > > > > > > > >