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From: Lovely, Brian (CONT)
Date: Sep 26, 2017 2:53PM

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Sarah Ferguson
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] best practices in accessibility coding questions

>So Sean, I feel like you are advocating not to make menus lists. this page from Jennifer say TO make them lists...I'm not sure why though.

Sarah, a menu can be based on a list, but will announce as a menu if the correct roles are applied.

<ul role="menubar">
<li tabindex="-1" role="menuitem">About Us</li>
<li tabindex="-1" role="menuitem">About You</li>
</ul>

Note that in this example it is assumed that JavaScript will be used to make the menu behave as expected. You can refer to the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices for more information: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#menu


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




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