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Re: skip to content, where and how many?

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From: Mark Rew
Date: Mar 1, 2002 6:40AM

Leo,

These are good questions, and will help your site to be accessible to screen
readers.

I'm not sure if I'm following the first part of your question. Usually I try
to have the first "skip to content" take the screen reader to a heading. If
the graphic your are skipping is in a <div> element you could put the anchor
immediately after the </div> tag.

I like the second "navigational skip link" idea. This would be useful for
screen readers that do not have the feature of skipping to the first
non-anchor text from the current pc cursor.

Consider using access keys for a quick means for the screen reader to get to
the skip navigational links.

thanks
Mark Rew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leo Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM forum" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: skip to content, where and how many?


> Can I ask folks' opinions on acceptable anchors that the "skip nav"
> link on a page should go to. Would it be acceptable to have the link
> go to an anchor that is wrapped around a transparent gif, the gif
> being located right before the main content.
>
> The reason I ask is that I am trying to develop templates for folks to
> use on our campus, but want to make sure that the anchors are
> somewhere in the code that folks do not edit. If I place it around an
> <h1> or <h2> tag right at the beginning of the main content, then it
> might get deleted as people will be editing that part.
>
> So I guess my question is, does the anchor have to be right where
> the "meat" of the content begins, or would immediately before,
> around a transparent gif, be OK. Would this be confusing to a non-
> visual user who might expect to arrive right at the main content
> when they follow that link?
>
> Also, what do people think about having two skip navigation links
> on a page - one at the top for the repetitive header navigation, and
> one further into the page that would skip a long list of links located
> on the right of the page, jumping down to the content after this list
> of links (not back upto the first main content section, as that
> wouldn't make any sense, as the user would have already
> encountered that part of the page).
>
> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Leo.
>
> Leo Smith
> Web Designer/Developer
> USM Office of Publications and Marketing
> University of Southern Maine
> 207-780-4774
>
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