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Re: Headings in a Menu Button UI pattern

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From: _mallory
Date: Jun 9, 2015 4:19AM

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:12:45PM +0200, Marco Zehe wrote:
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> 3. Or if it is not possible to insert the items in the DOM at that point,
> make sure after setting the visibility to true, to set focus on the first
> item within that account navigation block, since it can be assumed the user
> wants to interact with this now.

Here we have a difference between users: while a screen reader user
might "be assumed to want to interact with this now", for a sighted
keyboarder it's often just "what is here?". Having my focus moved
into things I only wanted to quick see what was there so then needing
to shift-tab out each time isn't fun.

Though I'm a lazy user and this is just my opinion.

_mallory