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Home page - footer big nav? #64

Closed shawna-slh closed 6 years ago

shawna-slh commented 7 years ago

Nav – what about having a big nav in footer? I see that done fairly commonly these days, and I do find myself using it. Given our biggest issue is getting people to know about and find the breadth of WAI resources, it seems that might be a good idea.

yatil commented 7 years ago

Examples:

yatil commented 7 years ago

Good idea; we can iterate on it when we are further along the development.

shawna-slh commented 7 years ago

more examples:

It is very common these days.

aliciafrausto commented 6 years ago

we agreed to come back to this after the IA is completed.

VivienneConway commented 6 years ago

I'd agree, provided there is a skip link or at least an ARIA landmark for the footer so that people don't have trouble navigating their way to the footer

yatil commented 6 years ago

Note that the footer navigation on adobe.com, for example, does not have the same links as the main navigation. I think this pattern is OK for websites with thousands of pages where you want people to have quick access using the footer, but the WAI site is not such a site. :-)

James-Green commented 6 years ago

none of the sites linked above have the same links in the footer as in the main nav. they use the footer nav for a different purpose entirely. Unless we are trying to duplicate or main nav in the footer (which is not a common practice), I suggest we drop the idea of having a footer nav.

shawna-slh commented 6 years ago

At this point, I feel like the main nav is good, and additional mega nav in footer is not needed.

Since I opened this issue, I'm closing it. :-)

If anyone feels differently, feel free to re-open.