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

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Nov 10, 2004 10:26AM

> I think the point is that when you remove extraneous navigation, you won't
> have any substantial navigation to be skipped over. (And then a skip nav
> link itself would indeed be extraneous.)

Not sure I follow here. Isn't there a value in providing basic site
navigation links on every page? If at the top (when read linearly) of each
page, then won't these need to be skipped over by some users? Or do you
just mean that lots of sites have a site navigation scheme that is too heavy
(long).

> Alternatively, if you put navigation at the end of a page, there's not
> much need to skip over it. Rather, the question is how to indicate, to
> someone consuming the page in linear order, that he has reached the end of
> content proper, so that the rest is navigation or metainformation about
> the page.

Is placing the site navigation links linearly at the end of a page a
recommended best practice, then? I guess you need to indicate the location
of site navigation links to those users somehow, though. Is that what you
mean about finding a way to indicate where the navigation or metainformation
is?

Phil.