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

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Nov 10, 2004 3:54PM

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, chnnb wrote:

> But how will people know where to find your navigation links then?

They jump to the end of the page, using whatever function is used for that
in a browser. That's where people go anyway if they wish to find
contextual information and didn't find it at the start.

> What if
> a new user arrives at such a page?

He gets the content first.

> 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,

No, why would I need to do that? It would just interfere with the purpose
of presenting the content to the user. You don't to scatter various jumps
around. Normal internal links (to things mentioned before, or to things to
be discussed later) sometimes make sense on long pages; but they are
references to content.

The need for "skip nav" links is created by putting navigation first.
The very observation that such links are need in such cases indicates that
people realize that users need content first. And although the need to
follow a "skip nav" link first when entering a page is less absurd than
the need to listen to a few dozens of navigational links at the start of
every page, it's still an inconvenience.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/