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Re: opening an expandable menu while using voiceover

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Jun 28, 2018 2:12PM

Is this a menu where if you click return on the link it loads a new page, but if you just mouse over / hit space a sub menu appears? I have on occasion encountered these and they can be truly frustrating. It comes about from trying to make the functionality keyboard accessible via opening new page but then seeing a "mega-menu" solution and attempting to incorporate its philosophy on top of what was already there.

Though some MS products / pages have what they call "split buttons" in their ribbons that also have this type of behavior. I don't think there is an appropriate way to convey this with ARIA directly, and I would expect it to be confusing to people with cognitive disabilities in addition to blind users that might not know the page was redrawn.
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Thanks,

Jonathan Cohn

> On Jun 28, 2018, at 3:43 PM, Sarah Ferguson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We are working on making some of our web features more accessible. We have
> a prototype of a menu that is giving some inconsistent results.
>
> - If a VO user uses the VO button to expand the menu and see the
> submenu, they get one result. If the VO user expands the menu with the
> return key, they get a different result.
>
> I think this is not a good solution and that we need to keep tinkering to
> have either action attain the same result.
>
> thoughts?
>
>
>
> Sarah Ferguson
> Web Accessibility Specialist
> Department of Digital Communications
> Brandeis University
> > > >