Russ Weakley r...@maxdesign.com.au wrote:
In order to comply with Success Criterion 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks – you must
provide a mechanism to “bypass blocks of content that are repeated on multiple
Web pages. (Level A)
One of the “sufficient techniques” recommended by the W3C for bypassing
Five 'skip' links is definitely too many and I would say that three is the
absolute maximum. During user testing we often get adverse comments if there
are more than two. A single 'skip to content' link should be sufficient if the
search form and sitemap link are at the top of the page (where
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As Strand Advisor for the Higher Education strand, I would like to extend a
personal invitation
I agree with the consensus that less is more with the skip navigation links
at the top of the document. “Skip to main content” in the majority of cases
will be all you need. If you are getting to a point where by rights you
need a skip link, to skip the list of skip links, as they have grown so
I do not recommend putting the navigation after the content. In fact I would go
as far as to say it's a really bad practice because it violates every user's
expectation of where the navigation will be. Using CSS to position it above the
content makes things even worse because the tab order no
*I have started a new thread for this discussion, as not to hijack the
thread on skip links.*
Thanks for the reply Steve. As I said, it is another school of thought (not
necessarily my own). I wouldn’t use content first source ordering for
commercial implementations as the overhead of relocating
An interesting discussion...
Back in 2006, Roger Hudson, Lisa Miller and I conducted testing on three
aspects associated with screen reader use (skip links, source order and
structural lables).
The findings regarding source order:
t appears that when visiting a web page, most, if not all,
I am familiar with that research but until now I didn't realise that Russ had
been involved - well done for the good work.
The source order does not only affect people who use assistive technologies.
Many people use keyboard-only navigation, and it is very confusing when the
visual order does
ooops. Reference:
http://usability.com.au/resources/source-order.cfm#conclusion
t appears that when visiting a web page, most, if not all, screen reader
users expect at least the main site navigation to be presented before the
content of the page. There appears to be little evidence to
