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

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Nov 12, 2004 9:54AM

> Both in the markup, and visually.

I think the issue is that you can have the same markup and visually present
it differently to different folks.

So, if the markup is this:

content
navigation

it can be displayed as either:

content
navigation

or

navigation
content

by merely changing the CSS.

Most CSS folks go off the assumption that most screen readers read the
screen in 'source order' and they then put content before the navigation in
the source, then merely move the navigatino to the top/left visually.

The question then, is in that scenario, where do you put your skip links?

Personally, I'd probably put a skip-to-content link at the top of the
navigation and a skip-to-navigation link at the top of the content if you
wanted to accomodate a variety of layout variances.

-Darrel