Now Serving: Nav Menu Best Practices for Usability and Accessibility.

What are the Daily Specials on offer tonight? What is your website serving up -- or down?

In WEB-Land, menus are ubiquitous, but how functional are they? Can your visitors find and select what they want to consume, or is your website all Dim Sum - style: wait to see what comes around . . . ?

Also: is there a way to Search for content on your site?

Let's discuss. Probably most website menus could stand some improving. • Have you checked to see if they can be accessed with keyboard alone?
• Are the menu names logical and short?
• What about submenus?
• How many levels of sub- and sub-sub-menus should a web designer use?

Please bring your website menu and search observations, horror stories, successes, and be ready to share.

ALSO bring your current problems creating effective nav menus to get some help from the many experienced folks attending, all of whom are eager to answer any questions -- whether noob, novice, or gnarly!