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

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Nov 10, 2004 11:43AM

> > I guess you need to indicate the location
> > of site navigation links to those users somehow, though.
>
> Not really.

But how will people know where to find your navigation links then? What if
a new user arrives at such a page?

What I'm wondering is whether or not your solution really gets around the
issue of having an internal page navigation link at the top of the page
(when read linearly).

It seems to me that if you put your primary site navigation links at the end
of the page, then you will need to add an internal page link at the
beginning of the page which will take a user to those links, in which case,
it doesn't seem any better than having a skip navigation link. Both of them
employ internal page navigation links. And in this context, the skip
navigation links at least have the advantage of being a widely understood
practice, and therefore one whose behaviour is relatively predictable to
users. No?

Phil.