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Re: should 'skip to content' be the first element on thepage?

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From: smithj7
Date: Feb 15, 2007 5:40PM

I have several speech users that I've discussed the skip to content link
with. They said they like it to be first, especially on pages they are
re-visiting.

However, I want to explore using headers as the main navigation, something
that was discussed at the Assistive Technology conference by both Jon
Gunderson and Shawn Henry. I'm hoping to set up a usablity test and have
two pages set up one with the skip and one without, both having the header
tags formated correctly ready by March. My main content is always header
1 to see if the folks miss the skip content. I have two users that hate
sites that over "link" skip to content, skip to local navigation, ect. But
the others never said much either way, and I never thought to ask. Our
staff using assistive tech love to work with me to check out this type of
thing.
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From: "Shrirang Sahasrabudhe" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:09 AM
Subject: [WebAIM] should 'skip to content' be the first element on the page?


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