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Re: Bypass Blocks for Keyboard users

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From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Jul 15, 2015 8:00AM

Let me ask another way. A webpage has a left navigation menu of 20 items, or top navigation of 5 items. A keyboard-only user has to tab through these on every page within the site, but the main content has a landmark or h1 tag. Technically this seems to meet 2.4.1, but would seem to violate the spirit of the guideline until browsers can use landmarks. Do I give the site a pass for 2.4.1, but note the usability issue? If the developer is required to meet WCAG 2.0 and this is a pass, is there another guideline I can use to get them to add a skip link?

Thanks.

Joseph

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 4:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Bypass Blocks for Keyboard users

The idea behind landmarks was (and is) the hope that browser vendors will take advantage of them, and implement shortcut mechanisms for keyboard only users.
As for 2.4.1 as it related to keyboard only users, I usually look more at accessible mega menus, accordions, tabs/tabpnels and other complex widgets that reduce the amount of key presses necessary to get to the desired content on a web page.

E.g. if your site boasts a navigation megamenu that consists of 4 or 5 main menu links, each with 8 to 10 item submenus, it is important to enable keyboard navigation pattern that enables the user to utilize the arrow keys to quickly navigate within the menu rather than only implementing shortcuts for mouse users but leave the keyboard only user to fend for him or herself, armed with nothing but the tabkey.



On 7/14/15, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> The second group of Sufficient Techniques for 2.4.1 - Bypass Blocks
> involves grouping blocks of repeated material with ARIA, headings,
> frames, etc. None of these techniques seem to help
> keyboard-only/magnification users, who still may have to move through
> a bunch of navigation links. Am I missing something here?
>
> Joseph
>
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >


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