- From: Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:25:50 -0000
- To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> david poehlman [snip] > Jaws won't need all > that special > stuff nor will window eyes and we won't have "skip..." > because we won't have > to. As mentioned before, accessibility is not just about blind users with the latest screenreaders... Also, even though there is no specific checkpoint covering exactly this issue, I do see it falling squarely within the idea/ethos behind WCAG 1.0 guideline 10 ... use interim solutions. In that respect, I'd say skip links are similar to the horrible [D] links for image longdesc. Yes, user agents should provide sensible mechanisms to expose this functionality to the user, but in the meantime we authors can include extra hooks. Yes, possibly a hack...granted...but nonetheless needed "until user agents" get better (and even then you may need to think about users that don't have the latest and greatest version). Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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