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Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Dayton Art Alternative Descriptions

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Nov 10, 2004 8:24AM


> Also, I don't think
> > that we can eliminate accessibility techniques (such as skip
> > nav) and justify it by saying that the assistive technology
> > can handle it now
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't we supposed to keep our
> pages as simple
> as is reasonable possible, in order to aid those with cognitive
> disabilities?
>
> That would suggest that we _should_ remove all extraneous navigation.
> Mike

Mary I am sure will clarify, but I thought her point was also partly that in
the the case of screen reader users, the current, observed pracitce of many
users was that they do in fact make use of skip nav links. That seems also
to be the conclusion of the study pointed to in an earlier posting about
observing screen reader users. I'm not sure how removing skip nav links
will assist this population, including especially those with cognitive
disabilities. Skip navigation links are not, at this point, "extraneous
navigation", are they?

But aside from that discussion, as others have pointed out in this thread,
the skip navigation links do not serve only JAWS users: they also serve
keyboard-only users and they also serve users of non-JAWS screen-reading
software (some of which do not implement their own intrinsic skip navigation
systems).

Phil.