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Re: SC 2.1.2: Leave, but to where?

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From: Laura Fathauer
Date: Nov 30, 2020 12:59PM

There actually is a disclosure based button navigation example:
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/examples/disclosure/disclosure-navigation.html

Note that it still supports arrow key navigation, so the coding to support
that would still be similar to the navigation menu example provided in the
prior email.

Laura


On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:45 PM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thank you Patrick for your interpretation of 2.1.2.
>
> And, I know it's a new subject, but it was very helpful for me too:
> A very clarifying discussion for me on github. So, let us hope, the
> aria-best-practice-example for navigation menus is not used any more for
> navigations. It simply makes a lot of effort for technical realization and
> causes problems and confusion to AT users. [Just saw that Birkir has nearly
> the same formulation]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Patrick H. Lauke
> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 11:17 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] SC 2.1.2: Leave, but to where?
>
> On 29/11/2020 19:08, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> [...]
> > 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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