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Re: skip-nav tabindex setfocus etc.

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mar 15, 2006 8:00AM

On 3/15/06, Alastair Campbell < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Kynn Bartlett wrote:
> > Also, have you tested these on mobile devices? When you're
> > viewing the web on a Treo palm/cell phone, skip navigation
> > really /is/ useful.
>
> That will depend on their CSS support. If they have limited support
> (e.g. don't understand @import or positioning), then yes, they should
> get the skip link at the top, as do screen readers.


So you're depending on broken CSS implementations?

It's important to remember that mobile devices with touchscreens often don't
have a "hover" or "focus" mode of interaction, or if they do, they're so
rarely used and hard to access that they're not worth it...

> There are several different user groups for whom this functionality is a
> benefit, and a group or two that doesn't like them there (often the
> client!).
> My desire it to provide the function to those that need it, preferably
> without having to set site preferences.

Sigh. Another case in which more widely deployed Edapta technology would
have been real, real nice. </lament>

--Kynn