Major Improvement: Elementor Mega Menu 3.20

[@daveden2]

You can follow the current progress regarding the Menu bug report on Github - github.com/elementor/elementor/issues/23875

[@gravijax]

Great content, thank you. Looking forward to your video when Elementor release the Menu as a stable feature!

[@daveden2]

Thanks! I'll definitely revisit the mega menu by then

[@mikecharles6767]

Great job David, they listened some! Wonderful! Mike

[@daveden2]

Yeah, I believe the team are doing their best to manage the millions of websites under their care.

[@daveden2]

Here's a link to Adam Lowe's menu requirement video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYLUfaeGhsqYZ6c

[@mikecharles6767]

It is a pit that there are not recognised icons for words like products, about, documentation and so on! Tapping on a menu is difficult for older people as well as those handicapped by physical dexterity issues. You are a great Champion for those who are not as able as the Elementor young devs seem to be.

[@daveden2]

Yeah, there might be some icons for those if we do a deep search. Thank you! Please always feel free to share any tips or experiences to help us make the web more accessible for all.

[@heinvanvlastuin5418]

Thank you, @daveden2, for your in depth and fair review.

[@daveden2]

I realised that I didn't stress enough the improvements that were made to the menu widget and the hardwork by the team.

[@heinvanvlastuin5418]

@@daveden2 No worries.

[@daveden2]

📢 Correction: JAWS + Chrome is the most popular screen reader/browser combo. NVDA + Chrome is strong too. For mobile, VoiceOver + Safari leads. See the stats: webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/?fbclid=IwAR3RER5Qpc-UtYwI81PbXOL3pIwkD7dSpBj7lhx5Em61aeII_Q4cdcfstXE#browsercombos

[@erickjfranco]

Great video 👍

[@avivaelementor]

Thank you

[@daveden2]

Here's the link to the EqualizeDigital Accessibility Checker on the WP Repo - wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-checker/

[@diana2ke]

How about for SEO, is it good for SEO the mega menu of Elementor, what do you think? Great content again, thank you!

[@daveden2]

I feel it should be okay for search engines since screen readers can also understand the content. However, for a better user experience and clearer SEO signals, Elementor could place the submenu content directly after the toggle button in the HTML.

[@bobruis4073]

I like the idea of the Mega menu, but... problem with elementor is that your builder get so freaking slow..when we add elements like these. Its like a train out of the 1900. Looking at Flatsome and other builders with the option its way way faster! I just hope that the developer take a bit more and more time to optimize and make it better in stead of rush it right lol...

[@daveden2]

Agreed! I'm not sure why the builder gets so slow when we use any of the nested elements.

[@heinvanvlastuin5418]

@@daveden2 Improvements are on the way.

[@daveden2]

@@heinvanvlastuin5418 great!!!

[@zafit02]

Dave is mega menu stable? Is it ready to create megamenus for production and mobile ? thanks a lot

[@daveden2]

Yes. Although it is currently in Beta, a lot of people are already using it. It's a bit limited with mobile menus currently (no offcanvas or full screen menu). Hopefully, those features would be on the roadmap. Although, one thing I've noticed is that the Elementor editor can sometimes get really slow when adding lots of content to the menu.

[@zafit02]

@@daveden2 Im a bit lost in which is the correct way to create mobile menus in elementor, most tutorials use popups which are not good

[@daveden2]

@zafit02 Yeah, I mostly do simple mobile menus. But those may not be great for WooCommerce experience. Elementor's Menu Widget isn't bad. I'm currently researching the best way to create mobile menus. I heard about Max Mega Menu and a few others. But I haven't tested them yet.

[@multa7053]

@@zafit02 If you want a free and SEO-friendly fullscreen menu you can use Unlimited Elements. They offer that for free. It's not perfect but you can even modify it quite a bit because they offer an option to extend it by loading in additional sections (whatever you want) using their template function.

[@fatjay9402]

how many people wpuld effect this ? Less then 1 % or more ?

[@daveden2]

Sorry, which aspect are you referring to? There are a lot of people who prefer to use keyboard-only. And I know quite a few people who also rely on screen readers.

[@fatjay9402]

@@daveden2 really ? hmm i never used it for browsing ^^

[@daveden2]

@@fatjay9402 you're quite fortunate 😃 I also have a visual disability so I struggle with a lot of things that are quite easy for others.

[@multa7053]

@@fatjay9402 There's a few statistics about it on webaim for example. In the USA there's an estimated 1.38% that are using screen readers.