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Re: Skip Links and ARIA Landmarks for Sighted Users

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Aug 13, 2016 2:39PM

What about skip links that are invisible until reached by tabbing?

I've seen these in a few places and thought they were an elegant compromise
between an uncluttered visual interface and good keyboard navigation. In
several of the examples, the link appears in a blank spot on the interface,
with a strong outline, so it's easy to read.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:54 PM _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:35:55AM -0600, Jared Smith wrote:
> > I'd love to have this functionality. I know there have been efforts to
> > get browsers to support this functionality, but I don't think it's
> > gotten anywhere. If it ever happened, the ugly, obtrusive hack of
> > "skip" links could finally go away.
>
> I kept using Opera 12 for as long as possible for exactly this reason:
> spatial navigation and heading navigation. Lovely. Gone when Opera
> switched to the Blink engine.
>
> cheers,
> _mallory
> > > > >
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