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Re: Is this Navigation or a Menu? How should it work?

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: May 9, 2018 11:22AM

Ah, because at the top level they aren't all buttons. The navigation menu I had in mind was one we built where everything at the top was a dropdown.

This is an interesting problem; I'm not sure where I stand anymore. Meh.

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of glen walker
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 10:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Is this Navigation or a Menu? How should it work?

Good question, Jeremy. I would do it mainly for consistency. Having a menu toggle between links and buttons in the same menu is cognitively distracting.

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Why would you push for links over buttons? It seems like buttons are
> about changing state while links are about changing what you're looking at:
> http://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/#button and
> http://w3c.github.io/aria- practices/#link. Maybe I'm misreading
> this, but that's been my approach generally.
>
>