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Re: Bypass blocks for a small website

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From: Mallory
Date: Oct 6, 2020 10:29AM

Let me fix that please:
"Let's point out, what can be done to improve UX for SCREEN READERS: Headings
and regions."

not everyone has admin privileges to install rando extensions/plugins that take things like headings and landmark regions and lets keyboarders or switch control users or whoever to ALSO use those to move focus.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, at 12:28 PM, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> A plead for usability awareness:
>
> I couldn't find out, what OCD stands for, but I know the abbreviation UX.
>
> 2.4.1 has purely usability in mind. 11 keyboard strokes don't make a webpage
> inaccessible stricte dictum. They make it just annoying.
>
> So let's not only reflect the "skip links" to satisfy the required effort to
> pass 2.4.1. Let's point out, what can be done to improve UX for AT: Headings
> and regions.
>
> "Although this Success Criterion deals with blocks of content that are
> repeated on multiple pages, we also strongly promote structural markup on
> individual pages as per Success Criteria 1.3.1. "
> (https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/navigation-mechanisms-skip.html)
>
> Besides: An accordion mechanism would fit too, to pass SC 2.4.1. Correct?
>
> Wolfgang
>
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