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RE: Skip Nav and the <link> tag

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From: Jim Thatcher
Date: May 12, 2004 7:59AM

Julian, I haven't checked more yet, but wanted to raise the issue of what it
means for an in-page link to "work." I think that means that when you follow
the link (enter or click on it), visual focus changes to that point (duh) -
BUT it also means that keyboard focus changes too. So the next tab after
activating the in-page link should take you to the first link AFTER the
target of the in-page link. This is broken generally in IE6. It seems that
if the target is an empty link (Yuk) (<A href="content" name="content></A>)
it always works in IE 6. Sometimes when the target in a table cell it works
(true on my site, http://jimthatcher.com). But in flat text, in-page links
don't work for tabbing. I have for years pointed to http://acb.org as an
example of a visible skip link - it is one of the first. Try if, it doesn't
work in the sense defined here.


Jim
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