Graham Armfield

Amy Hendrix (sabreuse)

<h4>Purpose:</h4>
<p>Many sites have dropdown menus where the expanding of the links can only be triggered by a mouse hover. This means that for keyboard only users parts of the site are harder or sometimes impossible to reach.</p>
<p>This plugin makes these dropdown menus keyboard accessible. When tabbing through the primary navigation the sub level menus will become visible and users will be able to tab to the lower level links.</p>
<p>The current version has been tested by both sighted keyboard-only users and screen reader users. If it doesn’t work for your reader, please let us know!</p>
<h4>How it Works:</h4>
<p>The plugin uses a combination of CSS and javascript to enable the dropdown menus to be keyboard controlled.</p>
<p>Using the script, whenever a link in the menu gets focus its containing list item (</p>
<li>) is given the necessary class. This enables the new CSS definitions to open any hidden submenus and bring those links into the tabbing order.</li>
<p>In the absence of javascript the full submenu lists may not open but the individual sub-links can be tabbed to.</p>
<h4>Credits:</h4>
<p>Current version built and maintained by Amy Hendrix.</p>
<p>The original version of this plugin was built by Graham Armfield. It is still available at http://www.coolfields.co.uk/2011/12/wordpress-keyboard-accessible-dropdown-menus-plugin-version-0-1/</p>
<p>The mechanism used in this plugin is based on the same logic used in Blake Haswell’s excellent example of a multi-level accessible dropdown menu. You can find it at: http://blakehaswell.com/lab/dropdown/deux/</p>


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<p>Amathia makes dropdown menus accessible. It adds a button to each dropdown menu, which can be easily clicked to open the submenu.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>If you have a problem or a feature request, please post it on the plugin’s support forum on <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/amathia" rel="ugc">wordpress.org</a>. I will do my best to respond as soon as possible.</p>
<p>If you send me an email, I will not reply. Please use the support forum.</p>
<p>Please be aware that this plugin will not fit in with the styling of every theme, often it will require additional CSS styling.<br />
It is not possible for me to provide free support in writing your CSS, I expect it will be too much work to do for free.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Translations can be added very easily through <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/amathia" rel="nofollow ugc">GlotPress</a>.<br />
You can start translating strings there for your locale. They need to be validated though, so if there’s no validator yet, and you want to apply for being validator (PTE), please post it on the support forum.<br />
I will make a request on make/polyglots to have you added as validator for this plugin/locale.</p>
<h4>Demo</h4>
<p>Check out the demo at <a href="https://svpegasus.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">my local chess club Pegasus</a>.</p>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<p>This plugin is compatible with <a href="https://www.classicpress.net" rel="nofollow ugc">ClassicPress</a>.</p>
<h4>Contributions</h4>
<p>This plugin is also available in <a href="https://codeberg.org/cyclotouriste/amathia" rel="nofollow ugc">Codeberg</a>.</p>


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