Re: accessible drop-down menus

I can't get tab focus onto it in Safari

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On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Roger Hudson <rhudson@usability.com.au>
wrote:

> Thanks Bryan,
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> This example is very nice and seems keyboard and screen reader accessible
> to me. It is similar (but not the same) as the Canadian Gov Web
> Experience Toolkit Working Examples Menu (
> https://wet-boew.github.io/v4.0-ci/demos/menu/menu-en.html)
>
>
>
> It appears your menu follows the DHTML guidelines which suggest that only
> the first (or just one) of the main navigation items should be accessible
> with the tab key, with the others accessed via the arrow keys (i.e. more
> follows the standard paradigm used with computer applications such as
> Window Explorer). However, from my testing with keyboard users (with and
> without a screen reader) I find that a significant proportion expect to be
> able to tab to all the main navigation items in a web page, and become a
> little disorientated when this doesn’t happen. And in some cases, either
> they don’t think to use the arrow keys or don’t know they can be used for
> this purpose.
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> With your menu, would it cause any problems if rather than switching
> between tabindex=-1 and tabindex=0 for the main navigation items (depending
> on which has focus), they all just use the tabindex=0 attribute so that the
> user can tab directly from one main nav item to the next?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Roger
>
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>
> *From:* Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, 29 May 2016 3:27 AM
> *To:* 'Roger Hudson'; 'WAI Interest Group'
> *Subject:* RE: accessible drop-down menus
>
>
>
> The following does this.
>
> https://github.com/accdc/aria-menubar
>
> All the best,
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
> *From:* Roger Hudson [mailto:rhudson@usability.com.au
> <rhudson@usability.com.au>]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 27, 2016 11:45 PM
> *To:* 'WAI Interest Group' <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> *Subject:* accessible drop-down menus
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> I am looking for examples of main site navigation systems where a main
> (top) navigation item in the menu is able to link to a landing (section)
> page, and open a drop-down menu with sub-menu choices. Can anyone suggest
> examples that are both intuitive to use with the keyboard and accessible
> with a screen reader.
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
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>
>
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