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Re: Fw: source order

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From: DAVOUD TOHIDY
Date: Apr 8, 2008 7:40AM

Hi,

There is a difference between the following two texts for skip links:

"Skip to Content" and "Skip to Main Content"

as described in Guideline 10 of the following briliant article:

http://redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html

So I believe the best practice would be to use "Skip to Main Content" before
all elemnets in the source code while keeping the navigation before the main
content in the source because we do not want to create problem for some
users by fixing a problem for others.

@Jared:

As for the Absolute positioning, I do agree that there are
plenty of sites on the internet which have not coded properly.

However please visit my portfoilo at:

http://cssfreelancer.awardspace.com

and let me know if i need to fix anything in regards to absolute pos.

But you may be pointing at fixed positioning which then you will be correct
most of the times.

>I think you need to be careful to not provide too many "skip" links.

I agree. As long as they are just a couple, that should be o.k otherwise
they will need their own skip link :)

>I've always wondered - if you have 4 "skip" links on each page, would
>these qualify as "repetitive links" and thus require their own "Skip
>the skip links" link according to Section 508? ;-)

I wouldn't think so. That is correct only if you link to the same spot
on the same page I believe. If you link to different locations with different
content on the same page it shouldn't be considered as "repetitive links",
because your URLs will be different such as:

http://www.mysite.com/#nav
http://www.mysite.com/#footer etc.

@Ron Stewart :

>Perhaps I am being naïve here, but give me a few skip navs if necessary.

No you are not naive. You are absolutely correct. But wait, whether or not
skip link is the only mechanism your crandma needs is the question.

A site can be organized so that users can access to the different location
easily. I would be very interested in hearing about any difficulties your grandma
faces when she uses my portfolio which I provided the URL before.

@Patrick H. Lauke :

Thumbs up :)

@John Watts :

> I'm not sure when users would be constantly enabling and disabling styles.

I believe Patrick gave you a sample. Another one would be a visually impaired
user tapping on the ctrl+ and etc. to size up the current font to make it
more readable.

However when she does that, she founds a lot of overlaps etc. making the content
unreadable and unusable.

best
davoud
P.S.: To support my research please visit the following link:
http://cssfreelancer.awardspace.com/stability.html