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We are excited to announce the launch of updated product names, logos, and headers within our user interfaces as part of the CivicPlus® Solution Rebranding initiative. These changes mark the first step toward creating a cohesive and seamless user experience across all solutions in our portfolio. As part of this transition, users may notice minor design updates. While the functionality you rely on remains unchanged, we are in the process of updating screenshots and other resources on our Help Centers to reflect the new branding. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to complete these updates.

Accordion Navigation

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We have developed a navigation method for secondary navigation, in which the levels of navigation pop out to expand up and down: the menu expands downward and stays expanded until manually closed. This functionality replaces the default flyout animation that expands to the side and only stays open as long as a mouse cursor is hovering over the menu.

 

Accordion menus provide improved accessibility by requiring less tracking to navigate as the menus will stay open until intentionally closed. For instance, individuals with dexterity disabilities may find it difficult to maintain the mouse cursor over the default fly-out menu, but won't have that difficulty with accordion menus.

 

Web Central Mega Menu, Accordion Style Navigation example.

 

Important Note

There is a small charge associated with this feature: the additional fee covers time spent styling the menu and enabling the feature. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for more information. If you are not sure who your Customer Success Manager is, please contact Support.

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    It would be nice to see a little more about what this looks like when the menu is expanded and to understand what the advantages are other than the direction the navigation flows.t

    Actually, I see now that is is an expanded view in the screenshot but it is hard to tell how it would "feel" in real time. Any example websites would be helpful.

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  • Virginia Eads

    I agree this help page is not very helpful - it doesn't give me any idea of what "popping out" really means. Nor why this would cost more.

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  • Jackson Wright

    Hi Virginia,

    "Popping out" just means that the menu expands downward and stays expanded until manually closed. The default "flyout" version expands to the side and only stays open as long as a mouse cursor is hovering over the menu.

    Accordion menus provide greater accessibility because they require less tracking to navigate as the menus will stay open until intentionally closed. For instance, individuals with dexterity disabilities may find it difficult to maintain the mouse cursor over the default fly-out menu, but won't have that difficulty with accordion menus.

    The additional fee covers time spent styling the menu and enabling the feature.

    If you have any additional questions regarding the fee, please contact your Client Success Manager.

    Thank you!

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