[Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Mikes and listers,

    I used a level one header for page titles and major headings. I only go
down if there are subcategories of information under a major heading. Look
at the KNFB Reader page on the NFB of Tennessee Web Site for an example of
how I did this. The header, "User Testimonials" is level one. Each user's
comments is preceded by their name classed as a level two header. I've done
this with Harness Up on NAGDU's Web Site in certain articles as well and
have not heard any complaints about it. The page on the NFBTN Web Site you
can check out to see this example is:
http://www.nfb-tennessee.org/knfb_reader.php

    See y'all in Dallas.

Peter Donahue
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hansen" <mhansen4 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links


Mike,

One other thing that we did on our sight was to put most of the repedetive
information (like site navagation) over on the right side. This way you
don't have to listen to much of this with each new page.

What you are talking about with the Level 1 Headers is definently old school
but tried and true methods are often the best. If I use a Level 1 header at
the start of the meat of my content what do I use for the title of my page.
Or am I not understanding something.

Mike


On 6/25/06, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>
> 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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