Topic: your thoughts on "skip to content"? (Page 1 of 1) |
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Maniac (V) Inmate From: raht cheah |
posted 09-15-2005 21:06
I wanted to solicit you good people's opinions on the use of "skip to content" links, the ones that jump you down the page to get at the content right? I can't really get my mind around what they're for except to screw up a layout really I mean I know what they're for, I mean they're really handy, I mean they suck. Hold on, I'm confused, perhaps some more rapid off the cuff questions and you can say what you will about any bit of it ... |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: France |
posted 09-15-2005 21:21 |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: raht cheah |
posted 09-15-2005 21:46
so you're basically saying that it's a good mechanism to include only for the 'disabled' and their UAs (poi-using-lynx being 'disabled' ) but fine to hide it from a "normal" user who's surfing using a graphical browser? |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Florida |
posted 09-15-2005 21:59
They're stupid. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Happy Hunting Grounds... |
posted 09-15-2005 22:23
Errr...I use FF - and I either allow graphical content, or have it stripped out, accordingly. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: France |
posted 09-15-2005 22:57
WebShaman: "skip to content" links are useful for those using a screen reader or aural browser ( which literally reads the texts and alt attributes of a web page ). "skip to content" link provides a mean to skip the navigation blah blah they certainly already heard and won't bare to hear one more time before finally reaching the real content of the page. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: raht cheah |
posted 09-15-2005 22:58
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Happy Hunting Grounds... |
posted 09-15-2005 23:04
Ahhh...thanks for the pointers Po1. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Florida |
posted 09-16-2005 00:10
The last person I met that was blind and using a screen reader (JAWS) was talking on a busy IRC channel and coding PHP. They're not _that_ disabled (and as crappy as screenreaders seem to be, they're apparently not that bad). |