- From: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:02:09 -0500
- To: "'Janina Sajka'" <janina@rednote.net>, <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, "'Richard Schwerdtfeger'" <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- CC: <kirsten@can-adapt.com>
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 http://rawgithub.com/w3c/aria-in-html/master/index.html 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 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. I wonder if there is anybody around who was sitting in the meetings when they 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 CanAdapt Solutions Inc. Tel: 613.235.4902 http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davidmacdonald100 www.Can-Adapt.com Adapting the web to all users Including those with disabilities
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