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RE: good example

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Oct 22, 2003 9:34AM

The skip navigation is needed by more than screen reader users. People
with physicaly disabilities using only the keyboard also would like to
skip navigation bars. Hiding the skip navigation feature does not help people with
physical disabilities.

Jon Gunderson
UIUC

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Zwack, Melanie wrote:

>
> Our site has a good example of skip navigation:
> http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/statelocal/index.html
>
> If you mouse over to the right of the seal, you can see the skip navigation
> (It's only 1 pixels wide sliver of the mast so it might be difficult to
> see), and if you link on this it will bring you right below the buttons of
> the main mast. This works well with a screen reader --
>
> By the way, if you call Jaws (Freedom Scientific), they also may have some
> ideas for you --
>
> Melanie
>
>