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From: Sarah Ferguson
Date: Aug 8, 2017 9:48AM

Hi Ben,

She said that the site that reads better (in my opinion) throws HTML code
flags. That site is still in development, as well. While she isn't willing
to use that code as a solution, she is at least willing to keep tinkering,
so at least there is that.

I haven't tried the escape key, I will see if that has an effect. thanks.

Regarding the caption, no the caption can be different. The alt text reads
as a description of the whole (called figure), then again (same alt text)
for the image. Then the caption will read.

Sarah

Sarah Ferguson
Web Accessibility Specialist
Department of Digital Communications
Brandeis University *|* 781.736.4259
www.brandeis.edu/web-accessibility


On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Ben Regis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Sarah
>
> I'm not a fan of big menus for any site and it sounds like it's far too
> difficult to navigate. You said about another of your sites reading the
> correct number of items and that "She says that the code in that site is
> incorrect, so she won't follow it." - can you let me know what the address
> of that site is - it would be interesting to know what she thought was
> wrong with it.
>
> According to http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#menu the Escape key
> should allow you to exit the menu - at least that way the user wouldn't
> need to navigate back out again.
>
> With the image issue - are you saying that you can't enter separate text
> for the caption? So the caption will just use whatever is set for alt text?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Ben
>
>