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Re: What's the point of aria-expanded on a menu button?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Nov 15, 2023 11:34AM

It's worth noting that the APG menu design works as expected with JAWS and Chrome, but the behaviour with NVDA 2023 is entirely different and you can indeed navigate out of the dropdown menu while it is still open. Curiously, NVDA only announces the expanded state of the menu button the first time it is used to open the menu. Thereafter, the state is not announced.

I don't know if this non-modality is a bug in NVDA or a flaw in the design.

And on a slightly different topic, why does the APG contain a design for a navigation menu using "menubar"? The ARIA specification explicitly states that "menubar" is for desktop style web applications, not for navigation. We have an endless fight to stop developers using "menubar" for navigation menus, and it doesn't help for the APG to undermine us like this.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd