Joe Ponzio

The New Nine Menus Manager adds a section to the ‘Appearance -> Menus’ section of your dashboard so you can quickly and easily create and delete menu locations on the fly.
Why? Because we’re tired of jumping back and forth between our functions file and the dashboard. Because we’re tired of writing <code>register_nav_menu</code> over and over again every time we start a new site.
And because there seems to be a disconnect here – just about every site needs to have a navigation menu, there are no configuration options for <code>register_nav_menu</code>, and it just seems to make sense to be able to create and delete menu locations in the dashboard.
This plugin was built by <a href="http://www.newnine.com/" title="New Nine Media & Advertising" rel="nofollow ugc">New Nine Media & Advertising</a>.
Single Site & Network Compatible
The New Nine Menus Manager works on both individual sites and WordPress Networks.
MU Compatible
The plugin is also Must Use compatible for both single sites and network installations.

New Nine Menus Manager

Register new menu locations right from the menu screen. Never write register_nav_menu again and keep your functions file clean!

Graham Armfield

Amy Hendrix (sabreuse)

<h4>Purpose:</h4>
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.
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.
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!
<h4>How it Works:</h4>
The plugin uses a combination of CSS and javascript to enable the dropdown menus to be keyboard controlled.
Using the script, whenever a link in the menu gets focus its containing list item (
<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>
In the absence of javascript the full submenu lists may not open but the individual sub-links can be tabbed to.
<h4>Credits:</h4>
Current version built and maintained by Amy Hendrix.
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/
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/

Accessible Dropdown Menus

Makes dropdown menus in many WordPress themes keyboard accessible.

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