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From: Mary Martinson Grossnickle
Date: Nov 10, 2004 8:49AM

> > 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.

Yes, that was my point, thanks.
Mary

>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?

I would agree these are not extraneous, but necessary.
Mary
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