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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 18, 2017 11:04AM

You could use aria-expanded="false" n the top links, setting it to
"true" when the link receives focus and the submenu becomes visible.
How does the user get from the link to the "submenu", just by tabbing,
or have you implemented some sort of keyboard navigation shortcuts,
like arrow keys?


On 1/18/17, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> The State Farm menu is nice, however, if you use menu and menuitem then the
> navigation items do not show as links in the list of links identified by
> assistive technology, which we didn't want. We also have the top level item
> (not first sub menu item) as the link to the landing page for that
> category.
>
> We've done the keyboard support, I just was hoping for something to tell
> screen readers there is a submenu
>
> Joseph
>
>
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