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Re: Skip to content links, what is the current best practice?

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Jun 30, 2011 9:30AM

and interesting discussion. Tied into this discussion of should we use
'skip links' should be the question...do they even work?
it depends on your browser and how things are coded and how the
browser is configured. This is appalling. we have been telling authors
for years to create skip links...only to find that unless things are
just right -- they don't work. How frustrating for the developers.
see http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/work/wiki/User_Agent_issues_effecting_A11y#In-page_links_broken
for a small discussion and links to other resources.

there are many such Accessibility issues see
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/work/wiki/User_Agent_issues_effecting_A11y
additions welcomed.

Developers should have a base level of expectation that certain things
should function on all browsers.

The User Agent Working Group is collecting these, and using them to
check our guidelines
(http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2011/ED-UAAG20-20110609/).
comments welcome.

Jim Allan, Co-Chair User Agent Working Group




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> Some, yes.  I always use "main" in conjunction with "content".
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> Vincent  - are you saying that screen readers actually pronounce "content"
> differently if the word "main" is in front of it?  How interesting.
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