Re: Skip to content link

GOV.UK are invariably very well considered pages, so I am intrigued/surprised that their skip link doesn't go to H1 on each page.

Sorry this does not directly answer your question, but, if the skip always did go to H1 then it would (I assume) solve the issue perhaps?

I'd be interested to find why a GOV.UK page main skip does not skip to H1.

Regards,

Alan

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Web Developer / Développeur Web
Elections Canada / Élections Canada
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Hi there.

I have a very long GOV.UK process with lots of pages. The first page I activate the skip to content link and it works as expected, however, for the rest of the hjourney users are now automatically taken to the main content everytime because the anchor in the URL #main-content' is always there. So it often skips the h1, hint text, back link etc....therefore I'd say affecting SR and KO users. I understand this is a potentially a backend mistake but I still feel this falls under 2.4.3 Focus Order? Is this right?

Thank you.