Another thought. Are you planning to position the navigation at the top of the page even though it is at the end of the source? If so, I would say unequivocally that is the wrong thing to do.
This will adversely affect anyone who uses keyboard navigation, because the tab sequence will not be anything like they expect. Or do you also plan to mess with the tabindex? And quite what sighted screen reader users will make of it is anyone's guess. Why change what is not broken? I don't hear any users saying they want content first. Where is the proof that making such a substantial change will benefit anyone? All we have is an assertion from a tiny number of tests suggesting that it shouldn't have an adverse effect on most people. But we run the risk that this test on a statistically insignificant number of people may actually be wrong, and that we will make it worse for a lot of people. But hey, it's cool to do things differently, and that's obviously more important that doing what's best for users. The first law of usability is hereby revoked. Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Lecoat Sent: 09 October 2007 22:15 To: Web Standards Group Subject: [WSG] source order Hi there; I'm currently laying down the markup for a site and have been pondering whether to put page content above navigation in the source. I often read that this is a good idea, and that makes perfect sense to me as long as there are skip links so that people can reach the navigation easily, but I recently read an article at usability.com.au that would seem to indicate that few users of screen readers expect this to be the case. Is there a prevailing wisdom in this matter? Content first? Or navigation first? Cheers; -- Rick Lecoat ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
