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Re: skip-nav tabindex setfocus etc.

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Mar 15, 2006 11:30AM

From: "Christian Heilmann"
The new WaSP templates will have this as well, however, I personally
think a visible skip link shows buy-in to web accessibility a lot more
than any "WCAG compliant and Bobby Approved" banners would ever do.
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Is it about stickers and approvals or about accessibility?

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We do use visible "back to top" links, why not "skip to navigation"?
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Back to top links are debatable, but have been overused into an
almost-convention. We have over 30,000 customers and each time we've
developed a product (or deployed on our site) visible skip links, many
people have expressed confusion. We've also had many reports of
clients of customers being confused.


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The ones on my blog (http://www.wait-till-i.com/) got hardly noticed
by anyone who wanted to just read the content but got good feedback
from people who really needs skip links.
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Personally, I feel that skip links that appear on focus are always
seen by the people who would need to use them. Your mileage, as
always, will vary.

--
Al Sparber
PVII
http://www.projectseven.com

"Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling
mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that
repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday".