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Re: Bypass blocks wasSkip Links and ARIA Landmarks for Sighted Users

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Aug 10, 2016 12:22PM

> 1. If we ask this question from a WCAG compliance perspective, any one of a skip link, headings, or landmarks is enough to pass SC 2.4.1, bypass blocks.

Only if it is accessibility supported can you rely on those headings and landmarks. Some people have argued that a user could create a bookmark with the PayPal skipTo script to add keyboard access to headings on the page https://github.com/paypal/skipto -- but I think that's a difficult argument to make and without a skip link it's hard to make sure the user will have technology that supports keyboard access to headings and landmarks.

As an author if you put the PayPal script on your site then it would allow you to meet that requirement.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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SSB BART Group
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