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Re: Which should come first - navigation OR content?

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From: ben morrison
Date: Apr 25, 2006 9:20AM

On 4/25/06, John E. Brandt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> That said, I am trying to understand what the authors means by "structural
> labels." They state:
>
> "All the participants indicated the inclusion of structural labels
> identifying the different levels of navigation on a web page was useful."


It can be helpful to use headers as "structural labels." On their page
they have the following before the navigation.

<h2 class="displaynone">
Site navigation
</h2>

Although their CSS is actually using display:none to hide it from the
screen and would be better using an offLeft technique so that is
actually visible to screen readers[1].

[1] http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility

ben