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From: Date: Sep 3, 2020 1:33AM

Hi all,

For our company we've put skip links into place, but a question occurred
yesterday and I thought this list surely had an opinion about it.

For our main brand we've set up two skip links:

* one to skip to main content, as the top navigation is huge and
requires a lot of tabbing around,
* one to skip to the "site map", a somewhat clearer navigation at the
bottom of the page.

But for another brand, the bottom navigation is very sparse, it's only
got the requisite legal links (privacy, company info, etc.). So I ended
up advising for only one link to skip over main navigation and go to
main content.

My rationale is that we don't want to overwhelm people with possibly
useless skip links, so the less there are, the better.

Is having only one skip link OK, do you think? Or would you expect several?

Thanks all,
Stéphane