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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 9:20AM

Also users of head movement devices. I think that it depends on the
software that is being used: some simulates mouse movements; some
simulates keyboard strokes.

Penny

Cheryl D Wise wrote:
> Sip & puff users? I've never had the opportunity to observe the use of those
> devices so I have no clue. Does anyone else?
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> Cheryl D Wise
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Penny Roberts
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Penny
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