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From: Mike Bleasdale
Date: Apr 8, 2008 5:50AM

thank you all for the replies. skip links are great but still not
implemented enough. as i tab through a site, i personally like reaching the
content. i am cued to what has focus by the browser applying a dashed
background. i believe that all the blogger templates are created like that
which makes it easier for me. i had thought that since most web development
bloggers ... zeldman, css zen garden, cedarholm ...etc appear to put content
ahead of anything in the sides, that was proper. it seems that many have a
small nav in the masthead which is easy to tab past but it is the large navs
in the side that are more troublesome. i do use firefox however which lets
me jump to any link by typing it out. when i have to use ie...it is more of
a pain. thanks

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Jared Smith wrote:
>
> > - Using absolute positioning can cause other issues (pages that break
> > when fonts are enlarged, etc.)
>
> unless you're careful and also use relative units for your absolute
> positioning - which sounds like a paradox, but actually works nicely.
>
> > - If users disable styles, suddenly the order is different than what
> > they saw visually.
>
> even more common: a sighted user that has stylesheets enabled and
> expects the visual tab order to match the onscreen layout may well be
> confused if it isn't the case.
>
> A "mechanism/method to skip" has been mentioned in relation to 508. This
> is also in WCAG 2. Worth noting, though, that this mechanism doesn't
> necessarily have to be something that the developer actively provides
> (e.g. a skip link), but it can be (at least for WCAG 2) simply grouping
> things in logical containers (e.g. marking up navbar as a list) and/or
> adding headers before the navigation and the content...the active
> skipping can then be taken care of by assistive technology, for instance.
>
> P
> --
> Patrick H. Lauke
>