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Re: skip-nav tabindex setfocus etc.

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 14, 2006 6:20PM

Hoffman, Allen wrote:

> 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,

Just on this first part, how about a hybrid approach where the skip link
is initially hidden and only appears (obviously in a logical, visible
place where a user with magnification would not miss it) when
tabbed/focussed to it via CSS?

I first messed around with the idea here
http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/21/ and have since implemented
it on a few sites (most recently added it to http://www.salford.ac.uk
during our first round of updates to the templates).

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