John Aside from my web development work, I have spent some time teaching Internet basics to a number of people, including those who use assistive technology. Seeing people up close, who have to use screen magnification technology, lead me to draw the conclusion that skip links should always be visible and belong top left. That is where these users need to first align themselves and subsequent navigation can sometimes be painfully slow. Not thinking of people who are short sighted to a degree, more those with quite serious problems such as Macular degeneration.
-- Regards - Rob Kirton Raising web standards : http://ele.vation.co.uk Connecting to others : http://www.linkedin.com/in/robkirton On 15/12/06, John S. Britsios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you all so far for your kind comments and suggestions. To be honest I would prefer making those skip links visible, as I mention in my own article here http://www.webnauts.net/skip-to-main-content.html But on my new web site http://www.seoworkers.com as I previously mentioned, I did not want to have them visible, because I felt like they were hurting my design. A member of my team Dan Johnson came up with an idea for sighted keyword users (with tabbing), which he only implement on the homepage (index.html) so far, and it works fine with Firefox, but we did not manage yet to get work in Opera and IE. We also changed the position of the skip links. 1. Logo 2. h1 3. Skip links 4. ... Therefore I would like to ask here, what do you think about the technique and the positioning of the skip links, and if someone can give us a css tip (no Javascript if possible) for the above browser compatibility problems. Thanks a lot again in advance, John -- John S. Britsios Web Architect & Business Consultant Webnauts Net & SEO Workers (Main Office) Koblenzer Str. 37A D-33613 Bielefeld Webnauts Net & SEO Workers (U.S. Office) Daniel S. Johnson 5 Ivanhoe Drive Urbana IL 61802 http://www.webnauts.net http://www.seoworkers.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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