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Re: Hidden headings with aria-labelledby or just aria-label best for for labelling landmark regions?

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From: Jim Homme
Date: Jul 25, 2018 11:36AM

Hi,
I feel that skip links should be visible when someone tabs onto them, but do not necessarily have to be visible when focus is somewhere else. It's probably more friendly to the user to know they are there when focus is somewhere else. I feel that it is OK to compromise and let them be invisible. The important thing is that they are preferable first in the HTML order.

Another consideration for people with motor and visual disabilities is to avoid changing the natural tab order. This helps people with disabilities with a predictable focus order. I've seen instances in which pages with forms try to help the user and change tab index so that the form fields are first in the tab order, but as a developer, I would think that you can't always predict what the user will do. And it's easy to get tab order incorrect.

Thanks.

Jim



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