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From: Bim Egan
Date: Jan 9, 2018 8:24AM

I like the Adobe example of an accessible mega menu:
https://adobe-accessibility.github.io/Accessible-Mega-Menu/

If appropriate the menu can contain headings, lists, paragraphs or images,
as well as the menu links.

It behaves exactly as it should, with the menu opening when the top level
link is activated and collapsing when keyboard focus moves away from the
last item in the dropdown, on desktop anyway. It has only one flaw that I've
found and that is that the menu doesn't collapse when focus moves to the
next top level link on small screens, for instance with VoiceOver running.


HTH,

Bim




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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Dropdown Menus

Thank you for bringing this up (again) I am totally interested in this as
I've been wrestling with drop down menus forever!!!
And yet to find a solution for that

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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2018 8:05 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Dropdown Menus

Hi WebAimers,



I have been researching dropdown menus on the web, but I wanted to find out
what you folks have to share. Here is my situation below.



I have a nested dropdown menu on a client's web site. It is made up of a
button that drops a list of menus onmouseover. The menus and their submenus
stay visible for mouse users, as it works great for them. However, it is
terrifying to screen reader and keyboard only users, because it has an array
of nested links totaling about 50 links.



I figured that if I add onfocus to the menu button, the browser would detect
a keyboard command and I can dropdown only the first level of menus. If the
keyboard user chooses to expand or collapse the first level, that will be at
the user's discretion.



What I am lacking is a tested JavaScript function or functions that use ARIA
attributes to expand and collapse those menus. The menus are made up of
unordered lists with links in each list. The developers would like to keep
this template and not choose anything else as it will require so much work
to redo this huge dropdown menu. I believe it is referred to as Mega menu.
Please, correct me if I am wrong.



Does anyone know of a good sample, snippet or documentation I can use? I
want to break it down to the developers and explain to them how to add it to
their already created menu. I have not been able to find something useful on
the web so far and I unfortunately don't have the time to recreate the
wheels.



Any help or explanations will be highly appreciated.

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