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Activating menu items on webpages is needlessly complicated #6735

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@Simon818

One of my favourite websites recently switched from a link-based sidebar to a bunch of submenus with menu items. The layout makes a lot of sense visually, and it's pretty fancy. One of the things I noticed when trying to browse it is the fact that I have to turn on focus mode to activate a menu item... for some reason. When I press enter on one, focus mode turns on, and I have to press enter again. It's almost easier to just tab through the site at this point. There may be reasoning for this, and it seems like something that would have been changed before now had it been a serious issue, but right now I'm finding it to be a major annoyance and am not sure why I can't just click on them like anything else.
There also doesn't seem to be a keyboard command to move to the next menu, or menu item. They seem to be more and more common on webpages, and right now I'm not finding a way to deal with them very well in NVDA. I'm just a user, so suggestions are of course, welcome.

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