[Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Mike and listers,

The only reason why I would add them is if they're required for NFB Web Site
Certification. Like you a header at the beginning of the page content works
fine for me. The one that really annoys me are the, "Top of page", or, "Back
to top" links every so often when you're reading through certain Web pages.
If you know how to use your screen reader's keystrokes for Windows, and for
your Web browser junk like that is unnecessary. Control+home will do very
nicely to get you to the top of a Web page rather than having to wait for
your browser to reload the page with your cursor at the top. Pressing the
letter, "H" to move forward by header, or shift+h to go to the previous
header are quicker and faster than skip to content or top of page links. If
your pages don't contain headers your screen reader's find feature works
nicely for finding specific text on a Web page. I believe there are also
keystrokes to move around the page by other attributes.

    On another list I read of someone who needed to put the, "Skip to
content" link on her sites, but sighted people complained about their being
there and requested that she find a way to make those links invisible.
Someone sent her the code for doing that. I can post it when I dig it up for
those who must include them on their Web sites so they won't be an annoyance
to sighted people.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links


I HATE "skip to content" links; they necessitate that one hit the
back-arrow twice to go to the previous page. Better to just put a Level
One Header at the start of the relevant content. And yes, I occasionally
use LYNX and I *still* don't like the skip links.

Ah well.

mike

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Peter Donahue wrote:

> Hello Mike,
>
>    In fact I do use templates for all of those reasons. I got the code
from
> folks on another list and plan to add it to the templates and to the Web
> pages I've created after the national convention. Any future Web Sites I
> create will include the, "Skip to content" link. I just wasn't sure of the
> code to use when page content varied, but now I have it.  Thanks for your
> help.
>
> Peter Donahue
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Hansen" <mhansen4 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links
>
>
> Peter,
>
> Technically it is done by using anchors on a web page. However to answer
> your question about how to acomplish this when pages have varring content.
> The answer is Templates. If you site has a standard template that it uses
or
> maybe 2 or 3 templates that it uses then just make this part of the
template
> and you won't have a problem. If you are not using templates and your
pages
> don't really adhere to a standard design then yes you will have to do it
> individually on each and every page. This among other reasons like a
> consistent desing for easy of navigation is why a standard desing is
helpful
> and important. Templates make a standard desing easy to implement and
> maintain.
>
> Mike Hansen
> NFB - Nebraska
>
>
> On 5/6/06, Ryan Smith <ryansmith78 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> there is a step by step guide in doing skip to links on a web site I
>> looked
>> a couple years back.  It shows you how to do the coding to skip to
>> anywhere
>> on a page.  It's somewhere on the htmlgoodies.com site.  Hope this helps.
>>
>> Ryan
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 4:37 PM
>> Subject: [Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links
>>
>>
>>> Good afternoon everyone,
>>>
>>> I've observed that many Web Sites including the NFB's National Site have
>> a
>>> link at the top of the page that allows one to skip the navigational
>> links
>>> located at the top of each page and go directly to the material
>> contained
>>> on
>>> that particular page. Believing that this is an accessibility issue I'm
>>> curious to know how you create a link of this kind as page content will
>>> vary
>>> on different Web pages. Is there JavaScript  that will do this, or does
>>> this
>>> need to be, "Hard-wired" on every page on a Web Site to enabled a
>> disabled
>>> site visitor to bypass the navigational links on each page and go
>> directly
>>> to the document. If there's a down and dirty way to do this I'd sure
>> like
>>> to
>>> know it. Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Peter Donahue
>>>
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