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Re: Accessible Superfish-like drop-down menus?

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jun 6, 2017 10:29AM

hello: this is normal behavior for a simple menu in Druple. what is
going on is as you tab to the menu link the menu is opening and then you
can tab thru the items of the menu. however if your going backwards the
menu is closed until you tab to it and then you keep going backwards over
the menu item itself but not the contents because the contents of the
menu are hidden until you tab to the menu itself. we have added some ARIA
to make this more understandable to a screen reader and the ability to
close the menu if you don't want to tab thru it take a look at
open.Berkeley.edu <http://open.berkeley.edu>;
for an example of how it works. you might also want to take a look at
webaccess.berkeley.edu
to see an example of a menu that does not activate until you want it to.
hint don't tab thru to quickly stay on the links long enough to here the
aria we have added to tell you what is going on. we let you know that you
can open the menu but we also let you know that once your out of the sub
menu that the menu has closed behind you.


Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces


On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7200) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I tried a quick search in the archives and I didn't see anything too
> current on this, so apologies if I've missed something.
>
> Our developers have put some drop-down menus onto some sites in our Druple
> environment.
> As a JAWS user in IE or Firefox, I run into an annoying situation as I Tab
> through the link in these menus. If I Tab forward through them, I hear
> each links in the submenu, and then whatever links come after that
> submenu. However, if I start reverse-Tabbing back through the links, I end
> up completely skipping the submenu links.
>
> The first menu they tried was called a Nice Menu I think. They switched
> to Superfish, since it's supposed to be 508 compliant from what they read.
> I'm still having this problem.
>
> So, I guess my question is, is this just standard behavior for an
> accessible drop-down menu that I just don't happen to like, or is this a
> problem that can be fixed by tweaking the menu or trying another solution?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
>
> Courtney
> > > > >