Tracey Holinka

<p><strong>This plugin is no longer under active development.</strong> With all the improvements to WordPress the need for this plugin has long passed. It will still work but no improvements will be made.</p>
<p>A Custom Menu widget that adds a custom url to the widget title and adds a custom css class. The default custom menu CSS class is <code>sub-menu</code> and it is applied to the <code><ul></code> tag. You will need to style the widget using your theme’s stylesheet.</p>
<p>Based on the core WordPress Custom Menu widget.</p>
<h4>Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Custom title URL</li>
<li>Custom CSS class</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin’s Official Site</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-menu-widget/" rel="ugc">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/TraceyHolinka/better-menu-widget/blob/master/changelog.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Changelog</a></li>
</ul>


Better Menu Widget

Working very well

Better Menu Widget makes it easy to customize your menu widgets by adding css styles and a heading link.

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>


Accessible Dropdown Menus

Makes dropdown menus in many WordPress themes keyboard accessible.

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