- From: Maurizio Boscarol <maurizio@usabile.it>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:03:33 +0200
- To: Jim Thatcher <jim@jimthatcher.com>
- Cc: 'Joe Clark' <joeclark@joeclark.org>, 'WAI-GL' <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Jim Thatcher wrote: >Joe Clark pointed out that http://mezzoblue.com/ has a small skip link list >(a table of contents) at the top of the page: > ><blockquote> > * [3]Skip to Content > * [4]Skip to Navigation > * [5]Skip to Style Switcher > * [6]Skip to Sidebar ></blockquote> > >This example is very different from any I have seen - both in terms of the >way he makes the links visible (especially in Mozilla) and in terms of the >way he codes the in-page anchors. > > Uhm... I've been using this method to skip to content in my site since last october (not a list, but a single link to a DIV with ID). Of course it's valid, but it has also a lot of limitation in backward compatibility. A user mailed me that using a cell phone he wasn't able to activate the link, that only works with a NAME in an A. Old browser also aren't xhtml compatible so the link doesn't work. After all, today I think that for backward compatibility and to improve accessibility, we should use traditional linking method to <a name="myname" id="myname"></a>. So I plan to change my site. I've also had evidence that some blind user prefer the skipping link to appear in page just after the <body> tag, and before the <h1>. They read the page title to undestand where they are, so the skipping link is the first thing they need. I don't know if this has already been discussed. Maurizio Boscarol http://www.usabile.it/
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