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RE: back to top

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jan 10, 2006 9:00AM

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Patrick Lauke wrote:

> Duplication, as mentioned above. Also, if you go overboard with the amount
> of "back to top" links, it can get tedious in situations where
> screen reader users get an overview of all links in a page.

"Back to top" links also disturb any user who navigates within a page
using the tab key or an equivalent method for moving to the next link.
In fact, although I don't usually use the tab key that way, I sometimes
notice that my browser does not react to clicking on a link, for some
reason, so I use the tab key and the enter key to follow a link - and then
I surely hope there are no redundant links on my way.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/