Re: Please review updated menu and menubar keyboard guidance

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Comment entered in github issue 120 and is also included below...

Fourth bullet under "Space":
Current text: Optionally, activates the focused menuitem.
Suggested edit: Optionally, activates the focused menuitem and closes the
menu.


Spatial orientation of "horizontal" and "vertical" for all arrow key
navigation is very confusing and as currently written, I'd never be able to
explain to design, dev and/or test. The second paragraph in the definition
of menu/menubar states "A menubar is typically horizontal..." and both
examples show horizontal menu/menubars. No example includes an original
spatial orientation of a vertical menu/menubar. In the arrow key navigation
sections, each calls out a difference when navigating horizontal or
vertical - is that difference related to the original spatial orientation
of the menu/menubar? Or is that difference based on whether menuitems have
a spatial orientation of horizontal or vertical?


These two statements currently exist:
Down
Otherwise, if the focused menuitem is in a horizontal submenu of a parent
vertical menubar, closes the submenu and moves focus to the first menuitem
contained in the submenu opened by the next menuitem in the parent menubar.

Up
Otherwise, if the focused menuitem is in a horizontal submenu of a parent
vertical menubar, moves focus to the first menuitem contained in the
submenu opened by the previous menuitem in the parent menubar.
Shouldn't both those statements state "...closes the submenu and moves
focus to the first menuitem contained in the submenu opened by the next
menuitem in the parent menubar. "
Both the right arrow and left arrow also include "...closes the
submenu...".


Is the following statement required or optional?
Any key that corresponds to a printable character: Move focus to the next
menu item in the current menu whose label begins with that printable
character."


Your thoughts?

                                                                                            
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From:	Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>
To:	"ARIA Working Group" <public-aria@w3.org>
Date:	10/31/2016 07:31 PM
Subject:	Please review updated menu and menubar keyboard guidance



All,

To address APG issue 120 and related feedback, I have rather substantially
revised the keyboard subsection of the menu and menubar design pattern.
Please have a look and provide feedback in github issue 120.

Many thanks,
Matt