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RE: Visible skip navigation links, was: good example

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Nov 13, 2003 10:34AM

Including headers (H1-H6) for section titles is also a useful way to
implement skip navigation bars. Screen readers and the Opera Browser allow
user to navigate header markup.

Jon


At 11:11 AM 11/13/2003 -0600, Jim Thatcher wrote:

>I don't think the 508 provision on skip navigation is puts the whole
>burden on the author any more than the requirement to provide text equivalents.
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>I totally agree that a structured approach makes much more sense and I
>would be delighted to see authors and browsers collaborate to provide such
>cool navigation.
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>For now, however, I look for techniques to allow users to jump around the
>page. The major screen readers and HPR have, somehow, fixed the problem I
>raised (skip links often don't work with the tab key); so you might say
>that the user agents and author team up to make it work. But often, as I
>indicated with acb.org, it doesn't work without the AT.
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>Jim
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>Accessibility, What Not to do: http://jimthatcher.com/whatnot.htm.
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>Web Accessibility Tutorial:
>http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.
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