[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14045: Give the menus page an accessibility mode option, like the widgets screen.

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#14045: Give the menus page an accessibility mode option, like the widgets screen.
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 Reporter:  quanin               |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Accessibility        |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  3.6-early 3.6-menus  |
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Comment (by quanin):

 Replying to [comment:39 grahamarmfield]:
 >
 > I'm not quite sure if I've fully understood your proposal here. Within
 the individual menu items a dropdown to set the item's parent could be a
 good idea. The links to move items around can I believe only allow
 movement one slot at a time. Whereas a dropdown box could allow more
 radical moves in one go.
 >
 > Consider an example from the future - supposing I have a menu structure:
 > * Home
 > * About Us
 > * - Team Members
 > * - Sponsors
 > * Services
 > * - Accessibility
 > * - Coding
 > * - Testing
 > * Find Us
 > * Contact
 > * Blog
 >
 > I create a new page 'Partners' that I want to place within the About Us
 section. When I add the page to the menu it will appear at the bottom of
 the list and using the up down commands only it would take about 8 steps
 to get the page into the right spot.
 >
 > However, using a dropdown to set parent I could potentially achieve the
 same with just one step.
 >
 > Tweaking the position within a given parent could be a link still or
 maybe a dropdown too (bit like accessible widgets).
 >
 >

 You understand my proposal perfectly, good sir, and this example is
 exactly the one I was thinking of. I suggested radio buttons for the menus
 you could select from, similar to the radio buttons re: theme location
 placement for widgets (left sidebar, etc), but a dropdown list for menus
 could work exactly the same way.

 The reason I suggested a "Parent of" field, though, was for--and admitedly
 I'm not sure if WordPress supports this--submenu creation. So you'd have,
 from your example above:
 * Home
 * About Us
 * - Team Members
 * - Sponsors
 * Services
 * - Accessibility
 * - Coding
 * - Testing
 * Find Us
 * Contact
 * Blog

 Let's say you made the "Team Members" page a menu on its own, but within
 the "about" menu--so, for instance, your team can handle their own
 biographical info etc and emphasise whichever projects they're working on,
 etc.
 * Home
 * About Us
 * - Team Members
 * - - Jason
 * - - James
 * - - Graham
 * - Sponsors
 * Services
 * - Accessibility
 * - Coding
 * - Testing
 * Find Us
 * Contact
 * Blog


 That submenu would be a child menu of the "about us" menu, so you should--
 ideally--be limited to selecting valid locations within that menu to asign
 the child. Hence, "parent of". Pages could still use either the radio
 button option or, like in your proposal, the two dropdown lists to choose
 menu location and position. Hopefully I didn't just muddle your nearly
 perfect understanding of my idea.

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