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

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Nov 12, 2004 11:01AM

> > I think the issue is that you can have the same markup and
> > visually present it differently to different folks.
> >
> > 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.
>
> I'm glad to see that someone understood my point.
> Incidentally, I am most familiar with SuperNova, although
> far from expert, and as far as I can tell it truly reads the
> screen, so _does_ take notice of CSS positioning etc.

Ahh. Thanks for pointing that out.

> The only way I can think of to make the links make sense in both
> scenarios is to label them as Jump-to Content/Nav rather than
> Skip, but has Skip become a de-facto standard now?

And now we're back at the question of what phrase is most appropriate to
use. I may have to take back what I said earlier about the word "skip",
since I hadn't thought about it in this context. Not sure what to recommend
now.

Phil.