- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:56:46 +0200
- To: Josh Hughes <josh@deaghean.com>
- Cc: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"skip nav" as a phrase is indeed pretty cryptic - sighted or not. But for people who use the keyboard to control their browser (and that doesn't just mean screen reader users) the functionality is important. Charles On Thursday, Jun 12, 2003, at 19:33 Europe/Zurich, Josh Hughes wrote: > >> There is no reason not to make the skip nav visible and it can aide >> even >> more people that way. > > Skip navigation can be confusing to sighted users. And I could see not > wanting to have a link on your page that appears to do nothing for the > vast majority of your audience. > > It should be fairly easy to differientiate between a Skip Nav and a > spam link. Skip navs are almost always simply links to anchors on the > page itself, whereas spam would probably be external. > > Josh Hughes >
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