[Resolved] Menu / Navigation accessibility issue according to WCAG

[Josh]

I’m really liking this theme! I’m trying to set my site up to be “accessible”. I like that that GP adheres to many of the standards too.

One of the items that came up is in the menu. On the W3 WCAG site it says that menus should not drop down on focus but either on enter or perhaps the down key.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/menus/flyout/#keyboard-users.

Is there a way to change menu behavior to match the wcag standards?

I know this may be a big ask, so if you could point me to the right files, I’ll do my best to muck around!

[Tom]

Hi there,

At the moment it only opens on focus, unfortunately. It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely better than nothing.

Making it so it opens on enter would definitely be cool – I’ll see if we can work an option in for this in a lightweight way 🙂

[Josh]

Thanks!

[Tom]

No problem 🙂

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