Brian> What's the best way to fomat a "skip navigation" link at the top of a Brian> page so it doesn't appear in modern/styled browsers, but is still Brian> accessible to small-screen / mobile platforms and reduced-ability Brian> environments (screen readers and the like)?
Hi Brian Another way of thinking about it is that it *should* be visible to everyone, including those with modern browsers. For eaxmple, someone might be: - perfectly sighted - using ther latest version of IE/Mozilla - mobility impaired and unable to use a mouse They would use the keyboard to navigate around a site. I'm sure they would appreciate a visible "skip to content" link to save them tabbing through the navigation on each page. My take is that the visible skip link really isn't incorporated much into designs. I imagine mainly due to ignorance and/or a belief that such things look ugly. I'm hopeful that soon they will be incorporated into designs in, of course, the most tasteful way :) Bottom line, if you can add it to the design, it's a good thing to do. Regards Mike Brown ==================================== SIGNIFY LTD :: the logic behind ==================================== ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
