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I can give you some anecdotal evidence that supports what you're saying. The very large health care company I work for now is currently redesigning their globa
by at-fates-hands 5y ago
I can give you some anecdotal evidence that supports what you're saying.
The very large health care company I work for now is currently redesigning their global nav. We've had no less than 10-15 design working sessions. The same thing that continually comes up is the hamburger menu and how to handle it.
The reason is the company did some pretty extensive research with seniors (a big chunk of our clientele) and found many don't have any idea the hamburger menu is a standard menu now for both desktop and mobile apps. We were told we either have to use it minimally, or not at all. Its been a struggle to find something that everybody can agree on. We have a very small team of 5 people - 2 designers, 2 devs and myself (accessibility) working on this.
I also happen to work in accessibility which many of the apps/sites that use hamburger menus on mobile either create keyboard traps or are totally unusable for screen readers. I'm at least happy our company is trying to move to something different.
- a9h74j 5y agoI don't work on accessibility, but is there a way in general for controls to have "alt text" and/or "hover text" or, God forbid, can you put 'menu' in a legible font e.g. right under a hamburger icon or vertical ellipsis? I wonder how such a text label would test in your application -- and it would arguably seem more "discoverable."