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Re: Skip to Main Content

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From: Vincent Young
Date: Mar 7, 2012 11:27AM

> Most of my federal government clients have scripts and widgets disabled
by their IT departments.
> I wonder how well this method will work on those workstations. It would be
> worthwhile to test if the jQuery script is affected or not.

If you are building the widget from a skip link in HTML mark-up, you'll
still have the basic skip link functionality. Didn't build in any CSS3
fallback Would be good for someone to add. Maybe I'll put it on github.
Thanks.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Bevi Chagnon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Vincent,
> Most of my federal government clients have scripts and widgets disabled by
> their IT departments.
> I wonder how well this method will work on those workstations. It would be
> worthwhile to test if the jQuery script is affected or not.
> --Bevi Chagnon
>
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> The following example is a basic scaffolding of what else I had in mind for
> a "skip to main content" widget:
>
> http://webhipster.com/testing/accessibility/jquery-skip-widget-enhanced/
>
> Used jQuery UI for a quick setup.
>
> Looking for thoughts, criticism, new ideas, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Vincent
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