- From: Maurizio Boscarol <maurizio@usabile.it>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:10:32 +0200
- To: Jim Thatcher <jim@jimthatcher.com>
- Cc: "'WAI GL (E-mail)'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Jim Thatcher wrote: >1. Skip Navigation Link > >The link should be at or very near the top of the page; it is a link with a >local target just before the beginning of the main content. > ><!-- at or very near the top of the page --> ><a href="#main">Skip Navigation</a> ><!-- many navigation links --> ><a name="main" id="main"></a> ><!-- beginning of main content --> > Just a proposal. Observing many blind user navigating in web page, I noted that in some cases they don't use the haders to navigate (it depends on the skill in using screen reader, which cannot be assumed), and sometimes they use the very same typical navigation strategy: skip to content, listen to the content, examinate the contextual links at the beginning and choosing one of them. In other words, they often are unaware even of the mere existence of navigation section, if they are below the content. If there are many section in the page (secondary contents, two or three link sectione, search, login, newsletter subscriptions, etc) , they will never notice them, even if they navigate a lot in the site. To avoid this "structural blindess" may be useful a paragraph such this at the very begin of the body part of the document: <p>Skip to: <a href="#content">Main content</a> | <a href="#search">Search Box</a> | <a href="#nav1">Global navigation</a> | <a href="#nav2">local navigation</a>...</p> This also require the <title> tag content to be significant: they understand "where they are" from that title, before the <h1> tag. I agree on the other proposals of jim, especially on the css method of hiding by position: absolute; left: -10000... Visibility and display should be avoided until user agent will not be able to render them properly according to media specification. At the moment it is not always the case. Bye Maurizio Boscarol http://www.usabile.it/
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