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Re: Speaking of "Skip to" links

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Dec 15, 2004 9:32AM

> The target of the "skip to" link is an empty anchor element. This is
> allowable under the HTML or XHTML specifications, which state that
> user agents should handle this situation, although some technology
> may have trouble with this.

Do any screen readers have trouble with that? I guess that's my main
question.

> To have the link go to the H2 heading,
> the anchor element should surround the text in the H2 element

And this is the catch for our current site. Our page template looks like
this:

-----------------
skip to content
(navigation HTML)
(breadcrumb navigation)
content anchor
[page title - pulled from DB]
[page content - pulled from DB]
-----------------

The catch is that the page title is sometimes pulled in from a the
navigation DB table, while sometimes it's being pulled from the content DB
table.

I think I can work around this and add another layer of logic to the page
rendering module, but before I tackled that, I was wondering if the current
method of the empty anchor before the content is a problem for screen
readers.

-Darrel