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Re: [EXTERNAL] aria-expanded menu or dialog?

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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Mar 8, 2021 9:37AM

I get your point Jeremy that my nav element has possibly unexpected behaviour of being modal and requiring the user to specifically close it if they decide not to follow any of the links. But the problem with making it a dialog is that it's not going to look or behave at all like a dialog. Dialogs traditionally have contained a statement or question, possibly some input fields, and one or more choice buttons. I know things have changed and dialogs are often now used for much more functional panels, but still the concept is of a temporary place where you do stuff before returning to where you were on the page. The whole point of navigation is *not* to return to where you were, but to go somewhere else. So I would imagine that closing the panel as you would close a dialog would be an infrequent edge case.