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Re: Skip nav links on mobile

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 30, 2019 4:50PM

Good point.
To further minimize potential confusion, I meant to call it "skip
link" not "sip link". As far as I know, a sip link is not a widely
accepted HTML or WCAG phenomenon, not even on booze related websites.

On 10/30/19, Greg Jellin < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I love this group. Great discussion. This really helps clarify my
> understanding. I agree, that bypassing blocks can be done a number of
> ways. In this specific case a client had a skip link above the nav that
> jumped to the main content and I felt it was just adding an extra step
> with the nav collapsed on the mobile version.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On 10/30/2019 2:05 PM, glen walker wrote:
>> Just a minor nit on what Birkir said about "To meet this requirement you
>> technically only have to implement one of a sip link, ARIA landmarks or a
>> logical heading structure". I know Birkir didn't mean that those were
>> the
>> only options but I wanted to explicitly point that out in case some of
>> the
>> newer people on this list didn't realize that. 2.4.1 only says a
>> "mechanism" must exist to bypass blocks of content. It does not say what
>> that mechanism should be. Sailesh's comment about the menu being
>> collapsed
>> is a "mechanism" to handle that, although if you don't get the collapsed
>> menu on desktop, you would need some other mechanism, which is typically
>> one of the options Birkir mentioned.
>> >> >> >> > > > > >


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