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Re: Bypass Blocks for Keyboard users

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From: Steve Sawczyn
Date: Jul 15, 2015 12:28PM

I realize this is very controversial, but I still lean toward calling a 2.4.1 violation if a skip link isn't present. My reasoning is that while the techniques don't specifically address keyboard users, I feel it's not in the spirit of WCAG to call for a mechanism that can't be used by the user base most highly impacted. Sure browsers could and should add keyboard support for landmark/heading navigation, but until that's a reality, we have real users with real barriers with no real solution other than to say that the "mechanism" actually should be considered to be functionality and hence available to keyboard users.

Steve