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esmi 3:56 pm on January 8, 2013
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Menus

Graham Armfield has asked for the Menu UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. to receive some accessibility attention.
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Graham Armfield 9:43 am on January 9, 2013

Thanks for posting about that Esmi, I believe it is vital that everyone who maintains a site in WordPress should be able to fully create their own menus.

Of course at the moment the order of menu items and the hierarchy can’t be changed without the ability to drag and drop – an alien concept for some people and for some assistive technologyAssistive technology Assistive technology is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. Assistive technology promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing methods of interacting with, the technology needed to accomplish such tasks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology like screen readers.

Sighted keyboard users can manipulate menus if they know about mouse keys, and speech recognition users can do drag and drop commands although it’s hard to get things precise enough some times.

But, how to make the menu builder accessible to everyone?

Is the best way to add an accessible option – similar to the one that exists for managing Widgets (which has similar-ish functionality)?

Or is there another way that would work better for everyone?

And (perhaps similar to other areas within WP) are there sufficient instructions clearly available so that everyone understands what they are changing and how to go about it?
- esmi 11:48 am on January 9, 2013
  
  Adding an accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) option similar to the widgets one has to be the absolute minimum fallback, in my opinion. I’ve already seen calls elsewhere on the support forums for it to be added to menus. It would also lend itself nicely to some sort of consistency across the WordPress UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing..
  
  Are there any other web applications with accessible drag and drop functionality that we could use as a best practice model?
  - Cyndy Otty 1:56 pm on January 9, 2013
    
    From the standpoint of a blind person “accessible drag-and-drop” is kind of an oxymoron . . . it’s inherently a mouse-user feature and those are notoriously difficult, if not impossible to translate to use for a screen-reader user.
    - esmi 2:17 pm on January 9, 2013
      
      Do you find the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) option in the Widgets section useful? Would a similar option for Menus help?
      - Cyndy Otty 2:20 pm on January 9, 2013
        
        I do actually. I think I’ve voiced a similar suggestion for that in the Menu screen before. (Seems like something I’d natter on about.)
- GrahamArmfield 9:48 am on January 11, 2013
  
  Just to let everyone know there is a whole load of debate about the UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. for Menus going on over at: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23119 but so far there is no mention of accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) in there.
- GrahamArmfield 12:12 pm on February 6, 2013
  
  Just to let people know there is still much debate going on about the new UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. for custom menu builder. You can follow it here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23119 and there is a big thread on https://make.wordpress.org/ui/ too.
  
  So far I’ve seen no real mention of addressing the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issues – either with the existing functionality, or with any of the proposed functionality. I’m of course specifically talking about the drag and drop nature of setting the menu order and hierarchy.
  - esmi 12:54 pm on February 6, 2013
    
    I’m just wondering if we should create a new TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket regarding the menu system’s accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issues. It seems to me that it might be possible to re-use the accessibility option currently available for the Widgets on the Menus too. Thoughts?

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