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Re: skip link breaks back button

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Mar 18, 2014 2:08PM

complain to the browsers, file bugs


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Cameron Cundiff wrote:
> > Skip links have been fixed in Chrome's rendering engine:
> >
> > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37721
>
> This only fixes the in-page link issue for screen reader users. Screen
> readers set keyboard focus to elements that are scrolled to (they
> wouldn't need to do this if the browser itself set focus). This does
> not resolve the issues for sighted keyboard users, thus the continued
> need for the scripting 'hacks'.
>
> Jared
> > > >



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