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Re: Bypass blocks for a small website

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From: Anna Lewis
Date: Oct 5, 2020 8:34AM

Hello,

I'm not sure how I got added to this list. Can you please remove me?

Thank you,
Anna

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 8:19 AM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> And additionally to the skip link make sure that the main section is really
> a <main> section and starts with an H1. These features also support
> efficient navigation with screen readers. And they are a small effort on a
> small page.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Patrick H. Lauke
> Sent: Monday, October 5, 2020 12:54 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Bypass blocks for a small website
>
> 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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