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Bug 19171 - Drop-down Menus (main nav)
Summary: Drop-down Menus (main nav)
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: webplatform.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: skin (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Doug Schepers
QA Contact: public-webplatform-bugs list
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Reported: 2012-10-01 19:14 UTC by John Foliot
Modified: 2012-10-07 21:27 UTC (History)
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Description John Foliot 2012-10-01 19:14:38 UTC 
Currently, a key-board only user must tab through each link in each drop-down in a strictly linear fashion. Tabbing behavior should instead be that initial tabbing goes across the top-level categories, when the user tabs to the category they want, press Enter, and *then* tabbing goes through the drop down.
Comment 1 Doug Schepers 2012-10-02 06:50:14 UTC 
This is breadcrumbs menu issue, and will be solved before this feature is deployed.
Comment 2 Lea Verou 2012-10-07 21:27:35 UTC 
Hi John,

Thanks for reporting this. I was also concerned about it. On the other hand, I'm not sure about hitting "Enter", will that be discoverable enough? I'm a heavy keyboard user and I never try it, since I know that if they haven't taken the care to make the menu keyboard accessible, Enter will just click the link. Also, most of our menus also serve as buttons, so Enter should trigger the function of the link.

How about changing menu with the arrow keys?