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RE: skip-nav tabindex setfocus etc.

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Mar 15, 2006 5:30AM

> Ok, maybe a moot point as it'll highlight the other links :-)

I would say so, it's really for people on linear access devices (e.g.
switches, head wands, keyboards) that I'd be cautious about, but I have
no reason to think they wouldn't use tab or something that acts like
tab.

I'd also add my agreement for Patrick's comment:
> having an always visible skip link is the most ideal solution,
> but it often is at odds with visual design (and personally I still
> find it to be a clunky solution to make up for the fact that user
> agents don't normally allow to easily skip things like entire lists
etc).

I seem to remember WCAG v2 having something about being able to
programmatically tell that there is a group of links, so why can't user
agents do that and provide a skip method?

On the other hand, since we have main navigation at the bottom, we do
tend to provide skip *to* navigation instead.

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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Alastair Campbell | Director of User Experience

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