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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Mar 14, 2006 1:50PM

I'd like to hear opinions on the following:

Providing the skip-nav capacity as described in Section 508 1194.22(o)
is most often implemented as an invisible pixel with an alt attribute.
This works fine for screen reader users, but for low-vision users of
magnification software isn't really of much help. I am thinking of
first recommending that skip-nav links be visible, second that for
non-scrolling pages, why not just use setfocus and put focus where it
should go, or use tabindex=1 to jump to the content--saves keystrokes.

thoughts?


Allen Hoffman