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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: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Dec 19, 2011 5:15PM

Hello:

I thought some on this list might find this Twitter post of interest:

Via:
@terrillthompson Skip nav links don't actually work well for
non-mousers. Blog & JQuery solution @ http://t.co/4MLaLQBT


Jennifer
At 03:57 PM 12/19/2011, you wrote:
>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
>
>
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