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Re: Headings in a Menu Button UI pattern

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From: Marco Zehe
Date: Jun 9, 2015 5:43AM

OK, for that case an additional suggestion: Each of the elements inside
reacts to the Escape key which a) closes the navigation menu and b) sets
focus back to the button that opened it.

Marco


2015-06-09 12:19 GMT+02:00 _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:12:45PM +0200, Marco Zehe wrote:
> ...
> > 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
> > > > >