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Re: Mega Menu

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From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Jan 18, 2017 10:02AM

The menus open when hover and focus is on the top level item. They are not "hidden" from screen reader users, who can tab or arrow down to sub menu items, but the structure of top level and sub menus is not communicated to screen reader.

Would making top level menu items h2 be enough to inform screen reader users there are sub items?

Joseph

On Jan 18, 2017 11:01 AM, Jeremy Anderson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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
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>> -----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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