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From: Detlev Fischer
Date: Jan 13, 2017 11:20PM

Just tested the Deque Mega Menu https://dequeuniversity.com/library/aria/menus/megamenu# <https://dequeuniversity.com/library/aria/menus/megamenu#>
quickly on a Mac with Safari. The submenus expand when activated, not when focused, which is fine (and they expand on mouseover).
What's different from what I expected is that the focus automatically moves to the first subindex item after activation.
This is one way of emphasising that the menu is no open - you don't need to tab or arrow onwards to get to the first item. The drawback is that the action on the main menu item is not a simple toggle action. But you can get back to the collapsed state (and your former focus point on the main menu items) hitting ESC.

> On 13 Jan 2017, at 23:01, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Thanks. If the sub-menus open when focused, does Tab go into the sub-menu or just to main items?
> Also, how does a screen reader user know it's a sub-menu or that it's expanded?
> For example on https://www.joedolson.com/
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