[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 grahamarmfield):

 Echoing what quanin said - this is not a failed attempt. It's an
 interesting concept and could potentially be the basis for a workable
 solution. So thanks for havng a go.

 I am nervous about the verbosity but esmi's concise solution could help
 there.

 I'm also unsure about the issue of using the arrow keys to influence
 'movement' of an item. When using screen raeders the arrow keys are
 normally associated with moving around within the page. I've just tested
 this functionality on NVDA on Firefox and I can't get the arrows to work
 without the override keystroke command. It would be a real pain for people
 to have to do that override every time they want to move an item - even
 though they probably won't be changing their menus every day.

 Could the necessary 'move' commands be included as text within the
 dropdown panel? That way, screen reader users could open the panel to
 access the options (which they might want to do anyway) and they would
 find the text links to influence the position. The challenge would be to
 find the right language to convey what we're trying to achieve here. Left
 and right aren't right here I feel. Knowing which way to move the item
 presupposes you have the 'sighted' model in your head.

 But since we have more space here could the links not be 'Move item before
 About Us', 'Make this item a sub-page of About Us', etc. These links
 describe more clearly what the action would be.

 The benefit of doing it that way would be that speech recognition users
 would also have some nice clear text links to use - it had been troubling
 me how VR users would a) discover what they need to do and b) influence
 items using voice commands only. Drag and drop is of course possible in
 software like Dragon Naturally Speaking, but it's laborious to get it
 right when compared to just saying "Click this".

 For VR users I'd want to see a text link on each 'at rest' menu item. The
 down arrow has no obvious text equivalent for VR users, and it would be
 poor for us to force mouse moving or mouse grid just to avoid an Options
 link.

 Also to echo esmi's comment - focus highlighting is always important.

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