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Re: Bypass blocks for a small website

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 5, 2020 4:53AM

On 05/10/2020 11:33, Vaibhav Saraf wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We are working on a small website having 5 main pages. When a user is on
> any page on the website the focus is managed to take him/her directly to
> the main section of the page.
>
> If the user moves to the top of the webpage, he/she will need to go through
> 7 tab strokes (2 in header & 5 in navigation bar) to reach the main
> section.
>
> In such a case does it become mandatory to provide a bypass mechanism to
> the main content? How will it change if the on page load user is at the top
> of the page and not in the main content?

I would actually say that it's not really ideal to auto-focus/yank the
focus to the main part of the page on load. Users may not be aware/know
that this happened, and may completely miss the content that came before
the bit where you forced their focus to be on load. So I'd recommend
removing this. And then yes, add a simple skip link to allow user to
jump directly to the main content.

P
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