Re: is role=menubar NOT for navigation menus.

Hi,

I'd suggest looking at this implementation instead of the wet-boew one as
it's a little more recent and its keyboard interaction is a little more
robust, although it's still based on wet-boew work:

http://canada.ca/en/index.html

Personally, I think this is a reasonable use of role="menubar", and not
inconsistent with the definition of menu/menubar in the ARIA spec or the
authoring practices document.

Rich?

Cheers,

Jason


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:26 PM, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Hi Rich
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> Now just to be rock solid sure I understand ...If your NAV menu example
> below was a JavaScript dropdown (on mouseover, or keyboard focus) Like the
> main nav menu at the top of this page
> http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/index-en.html
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> you would still not recommend role=menubar, right?
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> the ARIA best practices DOC, which talks about links...
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#menu
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> that’s what confused me
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>
> Cheers,
>
> David MacDonald
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> *Sent:* January 14, 2014 6:28 PM
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> *To:* David MacDonald
> *Cc:* 'Janina Sajka'; kirsten@can-adapt.com; public-html-a11y@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: is role=menubar NOT for navigation menus.
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> Hi David,
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> I think what they are saying is that it should not be used when you have a
> site navigation region:
>
> <nav aria-labelledby="foo">
> <h1 id="foo">Site Navigation</h1>
> <a href="xxx">WAI-ARIA Home Page</a>
> <a href="zzz">Janina's accessibility corner</a>
> ...
> </nav>
>
> Really a menubar is a sequence of menu items, most of which cause a
> submenu, to be rendered.  menuitems perform an action. With these types of
> widgets you are trying to categorize and hide functions until you are ready
> to use them.
>
> I think the authoring practices should change as I agree with the person.
>
> Here is the WAI-ARIA definition of a menubar:
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/roles#menubar
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> Great to hear from you! Will you be at the PF face to face in Toronto?
>
> Cheers,
> Rich
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>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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> From: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
> To: "'Janina Sajka'" <janina@rednote.net>, <public-html-a11y@w3.org>,
> Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Cc: <kirsten@can-adapt.com>
> Date: 01/14/2014 04:59 PM
> Subject: is role=menubar NOT for navigation menus.
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> Hmmmm... I may have answered my own question
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> The PF best practices doc seems to talk about a links menu freely in this
> context. http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#menu
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> Thoughts?
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> ========
>
> Hi Rich and Janina, et al
>
> I'm addressing a bug filed in the Using WAI-ARIA in HTML 5 document.
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23970
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> http://rawgithub.com/w3c/aria-in-html/master/index.html
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> It is suggesting that menubar not be used on link navigation menus because
> the spec says it is for role=menubar should act like windows and Mac
> applications menus that have a selection of commands.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#menubar
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> A lot of accessible navigation menus have added that role=menubar, with
> menuitems on mega menus etc... Apparently not making a distinction between
> navigation menus application menus.
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> I wonder if there is anybody around who was sitting in the meetings when
> they were writing up that document. If so would you say that was the
> intention of the PF at the time, to limit the menubar application type
> functionality rather than the menubar for navigation functionality? I'm
> planning on adding a section to the document that discourages using menubar
> on navigation menus. But want to ensure that that was really the intent of
> the PF team when they wrote that section.
>
> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
>
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