On 7/18/2012 3:23 PM, Ben Zeller wrote:
Hi all,
On a current project we are debating the best way to construct our
main navigation in an accessible keyboard friendly format.
The navigation consists of three levels - primary, secondary, tertiary.
Navigation will be arranged in a horizontal tabbed format where only
the first level will be visible on the home page.
Upon visiting a primary content page, the secondary navigation will be
visible below the primary nav, with the tertiary navigation available
via dropdowns.
Our initial thought was to use a structure that works semantically, by
nesting all three levels in the same menu. (eg.
http://www.stgeorge.com.au/ )
*Pro*: Semantic markup, all levels have relationship.
*Con*: User must tab through all secondary/tertiary links (we have
many!) before navigating to the remaining primary links:
If you are going to have page specific menus you are probably better off
not using drop down menus, as that might get a bit complex and those are
meant for groups of information such as about us menus where you might
have a company profile etc.
You are probably better off having the page specific menus in a separate
column.
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