[Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links

Sun Jun 25 21:50:37 CDT 2006

I always thought those "Skip to content" were done in the same text and 
background color to be invisible to anyone besides a screen reader user.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links

> 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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