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From: Chris Pearce
Date: Jun 9, 2015 3:26AM

Patrick it is an application but whether its a *true* application menu I'm
not sure as you could say its just a navigation menu. So the menu button is
the users name, their avatar and a down pointing arrow which when clicked
reveals the menu, within the menu are a list of links going to user setting
pages. This is featured in the application header so available on every
page.

Léonie that's useful feedback thanks. It did get me thinking are these
labels purely presentational? I feel if they didn't exist the menu would
still make sense anyway.


On 9 June 2015 at 19:12, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> FWIW, headings as part of a menu UI seems unintuitive to me (as a screen
> reader user). It isn't a design pattern found in software applications, and
> I'm not sure it's a design pattern we should be considering on the web.
>
> Headings are helpful for navigating and understanding the structure of
> content. A navigation mechanism is arguably not content in this context.
>
> Léonie.
>
>
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