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Re: SC 2.1.2: Leave, but to where?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Nov 29, 2020 3:17PM

On 29/11/2020 19:08, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
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> Is this a violation of SC 2.1.2?

Strictly, no, as there *is* a way to leave the component you were in.

As noted, this is likely the difference between being in browser vs
forms mode. That's not something authors have control over directly.

> As a SR user I don't like menus for navigations at all, but this is
because
> I never found an example causing no problems.

And arguably ARIA-style menus should not be used for regular navigation,
but for application-like menus. But that's been a long ongoing
discussion even among WCAG/ARIA folks...

https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/issues/353

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