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Re: back to top

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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Jan 10, 2006 10:20PM

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> 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.

On the other hand using the 'home' key doesn't return tab focus to the
top whereas a link does. If it is useful to be able to return to the
top, in my example back to the list of questions, shouldn't the tab also
be returned to the top?

Penny