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From: Peter Van Dijck
Date: Feb 19, 2002 7:54AM

I've been experimenting with different skip links. The page in question has
the classic top level tabbed navigation, then a second level underneath the
tabs, and then left hand nav. (Can't show it for disclosure reasons).

I added a skip to content link first thing on the page, which then jumps to
the left hand navigation, where a second skip to content link is, which
jumps to real navigation. I also added quite wordy explanations of the scope
of the search field and other things, a lot more wordy than what visual
users see.

Within the content, we sometimes have a list of letters of the alphabet to
show a list of things that start with that letter, so I added a skip link
there as well.

I do not have REAL users of screen readers to test this with, so I'd like to
know:
1. Are wordy explanations of things like search scope helpful?
2. Are multiple skip nav links helpful, or used on other sites?
Thanks for any links, tips, ...

Peter
http://liga1.com
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