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Re: Accesskeys (again??) (was RE: Physically Challenged Web Page Access)

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: May 5, 2005 8:23AM

On 5/5/05, ben morrison < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> > Can you explain this a bit more? What is the advantage of using the LINK tag
>
>>> > vs. creating an actual set of href tags at the top of your HTML?
>
>>
>> I'm curious as well, since the majority of browsers do not support
>> this and the current method for skipLinks using css to hide them
>> offscreen seems to work.


Chicken and Egg.
The problem I pointed out is that some user agents DO show or render
out the LINKs before the main content. This means that a LYNX user for
example will get all the relational links to tab through before
reaching the content.

In your document you'll still need to use normal skip links to avoid
repetitive parts - or simply structure your document that the content
comes first.

As to the current method of hiding skip links - it is based on the
false assumption that only blind users can benefit from skip links.
You can hide them and show them onfocus, but that can become quite
annoying.


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