main content page summary site menu accessibility features search this site
(The page summary is an abstract of the page - a bit like a meta header but inline and [hopefully] useful.)
Terrence Wood.
On 2004-11-25 2:19 PM, Paul Novitski wrote:
Since "navigation" presents a jargon problem, perhaps "menu" or another less techie term might work:
Skip past menu Jump over menu
What's an appropriate metaphor for a navigation menu if you're not a programmer and if your interaction with the menu is functional & auditory and not visual?
Also I wonder whether a concise table of contents for the page would work:
Jump to: - page content - page menu - website menu - page footer
Once users became accustomed to such a convention, they would know to take the first option most of the time.
And better than proceeding by speculation and trial & error, of course, would be to poll visually-impaired users to find out what metaphors & wording they'd prefer. I imagine this has already been done...?
Paul
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