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Re: Question: Flyout menu visibility

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From: Jakob Rosin
Date: Mar 5, 2022 7:19AM

That the menu is still in aria=“hidden” container would make sense indeed.
Thanks for the tip.
The link is https://ut.ee/en
Cheers
Jakob

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On 5. Mar 2022 at 16:13:19, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> It sounds like the menu's container still has aria-hidden="true". Adding
> aria-hidden="false" to elements inside it would not make them visible to
> assistive technologies because it does not reverse the "true" state. In
> fact there is no point adding aria-hidden="false" because it doesn't do
> anything.
>
> Can you provide a link to the website?
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Jakob Rosin
> Sent: 05 March 2022 13:02
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Question: Flyout menu visibility
>
> Greetings.
>
> Apologies if this question veers too off course of this list.
> I am a totally blind user trying to help an university make their website
> more accessible.
> They have decided to make the main menu hidden by default. It becomes
> visible via a “Toggle navigation” button.
> The hidden menu elements in the code have tabindex”=-1” and are
> ariahidden=“true”
> however, after activating the navigation menu, the menu visually appears
> as it should, its elements get tabindex=“0” and as far as I see by
> inspecting the element with chrome dev tools, also ariahidden=“false”
> NVDA and VoiceOver (on mac) both are able to focus and read menu elements,
> but it is not possible to see the menu via browsing with arrow keys, nor
> does the screen reader find any of the menu elements via find.
>
> Could anybody point me to any resource or advice what could've gone wrong
> here?
> I am suspecting something is wrong with rendering the page, but to be
> honest, my path to web development basics is still ongoing.
>
> Thank you in advance for any information you could give me.
>
> Jakob
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