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

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Nov 11, 2004 7:47AM

> From: michael.brockington

> 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.

But what about situations where there *are* quite a few "content links",
in the case of users with mobility impairments who can see the visual
(css driven) presentation of the site fine, but need to tab their way
through the content before getting to the navigation?

> 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.

Sorry, but...wouldn't the screen reader still read it out in the
order in which it appears in the markup, regardless of any CSS
positioning?

Patrick
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