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Re: skip to content, where and how many?

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From: Leo Smith
Date: Mar 4, 2002 8:18AM

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the input..

I checked out the page you mention below, and noted the alt text
you use for the skip links link - I had also been thinking about the
wording of that link in my own pages.

I cannot find the target of that link, however, in the page below.
There doesn't seem to be a <A name="contents">, either with
content inside or not..

please let me know if I am missing something here...

thanks!

Leo.

On 1 Mar 2002, at 14:26, rob wrote:

> Hey,
>
> you can take a lot of cues from the work we have done in developing an
> interface for The Robert Gordon University online campus:
> http://www.bunnyfoot.com/virtualcampus/
>
> It is important to user test, with appropriate users, the remark
> employed in the "skip nav " link. You may well find that many blind
> users skip the skip nav link without ever listening to it!
>
> Robert Stevens
> Bunnyfoot - Web Usability & Accessibility Specialists
> Tel: +44 1235 838500
> www.bunnyfoot.com
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> About Bunnyfoot:
> We make our clients more money by making their web sites easy to use
> and device independent.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "WebAIM forum" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:39 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
> >
> >

>



Leo Smith
Web Designer/Developer
USM Office of Publications and Marketing
University of Southern Maine
207-780-4774


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