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Re: looking for html technique to provide a method to skiprepetitive navigation linksi

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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Oct 11, 2006 4:50AM

Patrick Lauke wrote:
> Personally, I feel that skip links are a disease, born out of the
> inability of (most) current browsers to offer good keyboard
> navigation that allows users to swiftly jump over block level
> elements such as lists, or to go straight to previous/next
> paragraph/heading/etc.

That assumes that everyone who needs to skip links etc. uses/would use
the keyboard for navigation.
This leads me to wonder whether there is any group of people who
would need the ability to skip repetitive links easily but wouldn't find
it easy to use the keyboard.
I suppose not, because anyone who doesn't/can't use the keyboard must
be using some other pointing device and can therefore scroll down past
the links.
Thinking out loud here (in a silent text sort of way) so I may just be
rambling but I hope that you see what I'm getting at.

Penny