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From: Gus Reiber
Date: Jul 28, 2015 3:27PM

Hi Asa,
Thanks for your quick response, and I apologize for my slow response.
Any chance you can pass along a direct email?

We would very much like to get Jenkins 508 compliant.

Gus
greiber_at_cloudbees_dot_com

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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Bypass Blocks for Keyboard users
> 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.
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