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Re: "Skip to content" links, vissibility and keyboard users without screen readers, to hide or not to hide?

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From: Jim Thatcher
Date: Dec 19, 2011 4:57PM

Hi Birkir,

Thanks for your kind observations about the webcourse - I should update it;
I am tempted to just change the dates! What I want to do us update it with
references to WCAG 20.

First of all - a visible skip link is great and the best thing to do - but
an alternative is to make it visible on focus because it is primarily an
accommodation for sighted non-mouse users. As you said keyboard navigation
of headings (and landmarks) is not supported except for Opera (and I was
disappointed that they turned off that feature and have hidden a switch to
turn it back on). If you are using a head mouse you don't need the skip
link.

I didn't consider keyboard alternatives and how that would work. I would be
interested to hear from someone who knows that technology better than I.

And no, I don't believe it, but the skip link bug in IE has not been
corrected in IE 9 ...ARGGGHHH.

Jim
http://jimthatcher.com
512-306-0931