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From: Elle
Date: Feb 15, 2012 4:42PM

All:

I'm trying to make the case, during our massive redesign project, that we
should provide a visible skip nav link (instead of visible onfocus) in our
header, because it was my understanding that low vision users could benefit
from a skip nav link and they are primarily mouse users (so wouldn't see
the link if it was hidden on initial page load). A few questions for you
guys:


1. Is this a win worth fighting for? Do low vision users want this? I'll
go to bat for anything that benefits users, but I just wanted to get input
on whether it was truly beneficial. I am planning to take it to usability
testing soon, but the decision may become political before then (given that
it's precious real estate).

2. Does anyone have examples of elegant and design-centric
implementations of a visible skip nav link? To win the case, I think I'll
need evidence that it can be done well.




Much appreciated!
~Elle