Nick Gleitzman schreef:
On 30 Jun 2007, at 11:34 AM, Sander Aarts wrote:
My 'skip to' menu is like a map of the page and I believe it benefits
more people than it hinders.
OK, your pages might be complex, and so you feel the need to provide
'road maps' for people to find their way around more easily - but if
the page is so complex that you need to provide a map of the
navigation and content, don't you think that maybe your page is too
complicated? It suggests a review of the IA as a whole.
Taken to (an admittedly illogical) extreme, you'd end up with a page,
a map of skip links to explain what's there, and a map of the map to
explain what's there, and...
Well that's definitely not what we want!
Maybe map is not the right word then as it is not to explain the page,
but just for quick access to the different parts of the page.
It's the other additional content I was talking about that is to explain
things though (e.g navigation headers and putting "(selected)" after
selected menu links). But these are to the design what the alt attribute
is to images. A design of a page, especially a good design, provides a
lot of information about the different parts of the page and their
relation to one another. The additional content I add is to provide a
textual alternative to the visual info/context provided by the design.
cheers,
Sander
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