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From: michael.brockington
Date: Nov 11, 2004 6:06AM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chnnb [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]

> > > 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?
>


Surely the one thing that this discussion proves is that there isn't always a
correct way of adding internal navigation that will suit everyone.
Therefore, as Jukka mentioned earlier, shouldn't we leave navigation
mechanisms to the user agents?
I understand that JAWS and others can extract a list of links from the page
for the user. Assuming that there are a few 'content links' then any
navigational links should _follow_ these, not precede them, regardless of a
skip-nav link, since a user will not know whether they want to search for
another page until they have reviewed the content links.

As a further complication, I believe it is a fairly common practice to use
CSS positioning to move a block of content links from the end of a document
to a side margin, in this case the links are effectively at both ends of the
document, depending on whether a screen reader is used on top of a visual
browser, or a non-CSS browser is used. This considerably complicates the
issue of skip-nav.

Mike


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