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- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:39:41 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13626 Summary: Facilitate grouping of menu items Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Keywords: a11y, a11ytf Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: gcl-0039@access-research.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org, public-html-a11y@w3.org In order to facilitate structural or hierarchical navigation and progressive disclosure, the HTML5 specification should emphasize giving names to groupings, including to groups of menu items. The current HTML5 draft specification strongly emphasizes the use of hr elements to divide menu items into groups, rather than recommending methods that allow providing labels for those groups. This prevents the user agent from giving users a meaningful list of sections to navigate through. It looks like some methods are probably supported, such as by using a nested menu element that's labeled by a label element rather than a label attribute, and so would by default be presented inline rather than as a submenu, but they're not discussed in detail or recommended. Use case: Nadia is blind and using a web browser with a screen reader. The document contains a menu structure created with the HTML5 menu element, and it includes some very long menus with many groups of menu items separated by horizontal rules into various groups or sections. As Nadia uses the down arrow key to navigate through the menu items, she has to pause for each one to be read to her, so traversing a long menu takes a long time and a lot of effort. She would prefer to have the menu presented to her in hierarchical fashion that uses progressive disclosure, so she could navigate through the short list of sections, and then through the short list of commands in the desired section, rather than through one long list of items. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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