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Re: was: Hidden Skip link have SEO impact? now: the value of skip links

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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Mar 16, 2011 3:54PM

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Julie Romanowski wrote:

> I believe skip links can be omitted for simple web pages. The biggest benefit of skip links comes when accessing complex web pages with multiple focusable items. For example, if there are many focusable items, such as a large drop-down menu, located before a registration form, a keyboard users would have to tab multiple times to get to the form. Including a skip link on the page can help reduce the number of keystrokes, making navigation much easier.

Although skip links are often hidden via CSS. As a keyboard user I know how to find them by turning off styles, but are there actually a large number of keyboard users who know how to find hidden skip links?

-Deborah