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From: Jeremy Anderson
Date: Jan 18, 2017 9:00AM

If the menu opens on focus, does the submenu have to be hidden from the screen-reader in the first place? (Or did you mean active, rather than focused?)

Jeremy.

> On 18 Jan 2017, at 14:42, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Is there a way to indicate to screen readers the existence of a sub-menu when the sub-menus open when focused? Usually I would use haspopup or expanded/collapsed, but those imply user action to open/close.
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> Joseph
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf
>> Of _mallory
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 7:51 AM
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Mega Menu
>> The main menu items themselves are fallbacks if for any reason a user can't reach
>> the subs, or doesn't see them, since the main links go to category pages anyway,
>> from which one can eventually reach everything also listed in the subs. I'm still not
>> sure how intuitive it is percieved by most users, and I'm pretty sure pure screen
>> reader users miss the subs entirely anyway.
>>
>> cheers,
>> _mallory
>>
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