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Re: Skip Navigation

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From: Diane Boettcher
Date: Jul 22, 2002 10:23AM


--- Tom Gilder < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On Monday, July 22, 2002, 3:49:15 PM, you wrote:
> > > Personally I tend to put the skip link just
> below
> > > the main logo on a site
> >
> > This is where I put it before seeing a blind user
> > access a page. JAWS reads the TITLE tag of a page
> > first, so the page idenfication is heard without
> > bothering with the logo.
>
> That is true, although presumes all access devices
> act in the same way as JAWS.
>
> Some users may be viewing through a text browser
> that does not display the
> title, for instance.

Good point, however I'm not that concerned about
sighted folks using a text browser being able to skip
links prior to seeing the title. They should see

[skip nav links]
Title
[about]
[news]
[home]

Fairly easy for the Palm VII user to skip to the
content and see the title.

Am I missing a scenario? Perhaps two [skip to
content] links would be better, or are we just getting
cluttered now?


====Diane Boettcher
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