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Re: Announcing sub menu levels

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From: Mallory
Date: Nov 2, 2019 9:14AM

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 4:07 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> I find this whole setup kind of weird. Why does the user care how many
> levels deep he/she is, as opposed to what menu are they in?
> If you have submenus of appetizers and desserts, second level menus of
> meat, seafood and cheese for the appetizers and then individual
> appetizers, wouldn't it be more useful to know that the moldy medley
> is a submenu of cheeses, as opposed to the third level menu?


I care what level I'm at when I searching for things, because I need to keep track of where I am while I'm exploring an unknown menu. Lots of awful awful dashboard menus don't have contextual relations like your food example does (esp when there's lots of three-letter-acronyms).

I would probably wait until a user of a specific menu requested it before adding in a buttload of aria-foo text though. It gets verbose quickly.

cheers,
_mallory