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Re: Bypass blocks for a small website

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 5, 2020 9:34AM

WCAG 2.4.1 only requires mechanisms to bypass block of content (one or
more of a skip link, headings and ARIA landmarks).
So technically if the page has one heading or landmark it would pass
(in the case of one landmark it would be borderline pass since ARIA
requires that all content on the page resides in a landmark region).
In your case, yes, I would use landmark regions for head/main/footer
and leave focus at the top of the page when it loads (the only
possible expceiotn being if there is a login page you may want to
autofocus the username or the first input).
The skip link is probably a good idea. For me, I use 10 tab stops as a
rule of thumb indicator how important it is, but I generally recommend
a global skip link on websites, even with as few as 5 tab stops.



On 10/5/20, Anna Lewis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 8:19 AM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>>
>>