Thread Subject: Re: Bypassing content.

From: David Poehlman
Date: Mon, Jun 18 2007 1:47 PM

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Skip nav is a bad contextual approach. Instead, we should be looking at an
approach which mittigates the need to have "skip nav" if there ever was one.
Identify the Nav and let the technology decide how to handle it. I often
see something that say Navigation at the top and I just skip to the next
block.

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From: "Hoffman, Allen" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [teitac-websoftware] Bypassing content.


I'd like the skip-nav method to be delineated in meta data, so for
example:
<---meta skipnavtext="skip to main content">
or even
<---meta skipnav1="skip to main content" skipnav2="skip to xxx section"
--->
This way automated tools could identify the text strings to look for,
map the link and anchors they point to, and test if they are indeed
there.



Allen Hoffman -- = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ; v: 202-447-0303

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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Sailesh
Panchang
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:34 PM
To: 'TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee'
Subject: Re: [teitac-websoftware] Bypassing content.

>The skip nav link offers very poor control - you get one option and
>that is to move focus to where the link is and nowhere else.
Well that is what all links do- move focus to a particular target. The
skip nav link moves focus to after end of group of links or repetitive
block of content if one prefers that. It never purported to do anything
else and is an effective vehicle for that. It is but one option when
other structural markup is absent.

Sailesh Panchang
Senior Accessibility Engineer
Deque Systems Inc. (www.deque.com)
11130 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite #140,
Reston VA 20191
Phone: 703-225-0380 (ext 105)
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