- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:54:29 +1000
- To: Sailesh Panchang <spanchang02@yahoo.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Sailesh Panchang writes: > L2, SC2 Skip nav link > It states: > 2. Large blocks of material that are repeated on multiple pages, such as navigation menus with more > than 8 or more links, can be bypassed by people who > use screen readers or who navigate via keyboard or keyboard interface. > Comments: > - make it five instead of eightt The numbers are more or less arbitrary. That's one of the problems with guideline 2.4: it can't easily be made testable without introducing dubitable thresholds. It also relies on the concepts of "page", "site" etc., which are problematic; see the editorial notes. > - This criteria should cover skipping long groups of links (whether repetitive or not). > This should correspond to WCAG 1.0 checkpoint 13.6 (P3). Why should it not be at level 3 in WCAG 2.0? The only good argument for having it at level 2 that I can think of is cognitive.
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