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From: John Hicks
Date: Sep 3, 2020 1:43AM

Hello
I think your reasoning is sound ... and yet

Depends if "Main Content" can be considered a repeated élément across the
site.
Success Criterion 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks
<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#bypass-blocks> A mechanism
<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-mechanism> is available to bypass blocks
of content that are repeated on multiple Web pages
<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-web-page-s>.
Also, short cuts to the search function and footer are specifically
mentioned as one option for ... not sure wcag, RGAA 12.5

I'd say having the footer in the list would make sense if you had other
things (skip to nav, search box) ... but if content and footer only, and if
there is nothing in the footer ... (no site map, etc) , then arguably you
don't need it




Le jeu. 3 sept. 2020 à 09:33, Stéphane Deschamps < <EMAIL REMOVED> > a
écrit :

> 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
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