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RE: Skip links for visual users?

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From: Kilcommons,Cath
Date: Dec 17, 2002 9:45AM

Hi Alistair,

To me, the most obvious group would be those using magnification software. Magnification programs such as ZoomText (by AIsquared)or MAGic (by Freedom Scientific). When it comes to just the visual interface, your CSS layout would not be affected. Many of these magnification programs also have a speech component and that is where the CSS layout might be affected, by not having tried this I cannot say for sure. What happens to that site if another CSS is applied? If you would like to post a link to try, some folks might be able to give you their results. There are also trial versions available.

I think an argument might also be made that users with cognitive challenges might find a visual skip links useful - rather than sorting through info they might have difficulties processing, they could just skip over to the "meat" of the page. At CSU, some programs we offer for student use include WYNN (Freedom Scientific) and TEXThelp's Read & Write.

Hope that helps a bit.

Regards,
Cath

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Cath Stager- Kilcommons
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