[Sakai Jira] Reopened: (SAKIII-3098) In the Left Nav, nav elements with sub-elements are invisible to screen readers and not navigable by keyboard users.

[Joe Humbert (JIRA)]

     [ https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAKIII-3098?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Joe Humbert reopened SAKIII-3098:
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Currently the left navigation consists of two lists. One containing "My Dashboard" and My Messages" the other containing "My Profile", "My Library", "My Memberships" and "My Contacts".

All of these should be in one list so the side navigation is both better understood and easy to skip over using screen-reading software.



> In the Left Nav, nav elements with sub-elements are invisible to screen readers and not navigable by keyboard users. 
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>                 Key: SAKIII-3098
>                 URL: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAKIII-3098
>             Project: Sakai 3 UI Dev
>          Issue Type: Bug/Defect
>          Components: Accessibility
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.1, Sprint 112
>         Environment: Safari 5 and FF4 on Mac
>            Reporter: Eli Cochran
>            Assignee: James Sloane
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 1.0.1, Sprint 112
>
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> Left nav elements that have sub-pages are not read by a screen reader and are not navigable by keyboard users.
> To reproduce: 
> 1. Navigate to My Dashboard. 
> 2. Use the tab key on the keyboard to navigate to and activate the My Messages or My Profile 
> > Observe: while the other elements in the left nav are focused by the tab key, these elements are skipped. They are subsiquently not read by a screen reader. 
> All elements in a navigation should be of the same type and marked up the same way so that they are read in the same way. For example, if all these elements where part of a nested list with links then the screen reader would read them correctly and the keyboard would find and activate them correctly. 

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