RE: Skip to content link

" Skip links etc are not meant for you. They're meant for keyboard users that don't use a screen reader... (because not everything in accessibility is about SR users *grin*)"

Music to my ears, Patrick, but alas unfortunately not in Australia where 'accessibility' is synonymous with 'screen reader' ... 




-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> 
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2024 12:13 PM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Skip to content link

On 08/03/2024 00:31, Adam Cooper wrote:
[...]
> But, more importantly, why would I bother using a skip link when 
> screen reader applications provide much more efficient and diverse 
> ways of entering the content of a view …

Skip links etc are not meant for you. They're meant for keyboard users that don't use a screen reader... (because not everything in accessibility is about SR users *grin*)

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Received on Friday, 8 March 2024 01:35:11 UTC