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fix: improve dropdown menu accessibility - closes #8810 #11956

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@Niznikr Niznikr commented Jan 2, 2020

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This addresses #8810. Updates list item role to none and adds role menuitem to anchors within the menu. This enables proper keyboard navigation when using a screen reader.

Note: We currently use 6.4. It would be much appreciated if the change was backported to that release family.

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Updates li and a element roles to the appropriate values.

Addresses foundation#8810

on-behalf-of: @ithaka <robert.niznik@ithaka.org>
@Niznikr Niznikr changed the title fix: improve dropdown menu accessibility - #8810 fix: improve dropdown menu accessibility - closes #8810 Jan 2, 2020
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Niznikr commented Jan 8, 2020

@DanielRuf please let us know if we can help with anything to get this into a release!

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LGTM. Let's see what Daniel thinks...

@joeworkman joeworkman added this to the 6.6.2 milestone Mar 27, 2020
@joeworkman joeworkman merged commit d1477a6 into foundation:develop Mar 27, 2020
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This pull request has been mentioned on Foundation Open Source Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://foundation.discourse.group/t/foundation-for-sites-6-6-2/1936/1

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Accessibility issue with Dropdown
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