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Re: Section 508 - Skipping Repetetive Links

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From: Holly Marie
Date: Oct 9, 2001 9:37AM


In Addition to supplying "skip links" for pages with navigational
looking bars or areas at the top or left of content pages, I also supply
textual or regular text links at the bottoms of such pages. This may not
be desirable to visual designers but I think it is handy or can be for
some users.

Regarding invisible skip links:
I usually put these links into my pages as invisible.
I personally struggle with the issue of coding invisible skip content
links or having some sort of visible skip link, because they may be
important to be seen.
If you have a low vision user that can see, but with difficulty and does
use a combination of seeing a page and hearing the page while seeing it,
it may be easy to miss?
The other type of person this may really be difficult for is the motor
impaired user who may be tabbing through pages and navigational links
and miss a subtle clue that the cursor stopped at a blank looking area
is really a skip to content link.
So, While it is nice -- not to see the link -- it may be better to make
one visible in some way for those cases. As I have seen the "d" links
visible next to charts or tables or graphics for long descriptions.
holly


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