Thanks for your help everyone. For some reason my version of Firefox
and Safari are both not tabbing through links. They just keep tabbing
around the form fields on the actual browser.
Anyway, I will check it on another machine. Thanks Thierry and Jamie,
I have added the :focus element now, so should be all good once I can
test on another machine.
Thanks everyone.
On 15/11/2007, Jamie Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I've actually seen this before, and this approach is pretty much ideal, the
> only tweak you have to make is as well as having a:active you also need
> a:focus and this will fix your issue.
>
> ul.skipNav li a:focus, ul.skipNav li a:active { /* your active styles*/}
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers
> Jamie.
>
> On 15/11/2007, Steve Green < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to tab through the links in
> > Firefox. Links are not on the tab sequence in Safari by default, but you
> can
> > turn that on in the Preferences. I have no idea if users actually do in
> > practice.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of Paul Collins
> > Sent: 15 November 2007 14:45
> > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
> > Subject: [WSG] Skip nav links, tab through
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've added a hidden "skip navigation" link to my site, that I want to show
> > up when you tab through each page. I'm using the method described on the
> > webaim site:
> > http://www.webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/#focus
> >
> > Problem is, I realised that you can't actually tab through the links on a
> > page using Firefox or Safari. I am guessing this has to do with Tabbed
> > Browsing shortcuts?!
> >
> > Does anyone know a better way of doing this, so when someone tabs through
> > your site they get the Skip Navigation link displayed?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> >
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