Rahul Gonsalves schreef:
Weighing in rather late to this discussion; hopefully this is still
relevant. I think Maxdesign had a study on skip links [1] and the
benefits to visually challenged users a while ago. I found the
presentation rather useful, because it challenged some of my own
assumptions as to how visually challenged users interact with
websites. The gist of it was that 'skip to' links were perhaps less
useful than structural headings, though I read through the
presentation far too long ago for that to be a good summary.
Best,
- Rahul.
[1] http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/
It's the same study I refered to in an earlier post. Both structural
headings and 'skip links' are recommended by it.
From the study:
"Skip Links
- Very experienced screen reader users did not use them at all.
- Moderately experienced user used them extensively"
[ http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/#section26 ]
"Structural labels for different levels of navigation
All participants said these were very useful
(but two most experienced testers did not appear to use them)"
[ http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/#section27 ]
"Some screen reader users are likely to find skip links useful
50% of test-site research participants said they were useful."
[ http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/#section40 ]
"Structural labels will benefit most screen reader users
77% of expectation survey participants indicated difficulty in
differentiating between different navigation menus on web pages.
100% of test-site participants reported the labels identifying the
different levels of navigation on the sites where useful."
[ http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/#section41 ]
"Recommendations
- Place navigation before content to benefit some screen reader users
- Include skip links
- Use meaningful headings
- Use descriptive links
- Use structural labels to identify navigational components of web pages.
- Use semantically correct and valid page code.
- Adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines."
[ http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/#section42 ]
cheers,
Sander
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