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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Jan 27, 2017 8:52AM

What I did on
http://www.balancefba.org/
was have off-screen text saying "has sub menu".

I copied this approach from the Freedom Scientific site.
http://www.freedomscientific.com/

Sandy


On 2017-01-18 9:42 AM, Joseph Sherman wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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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