[Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links

Tue Jun 27 15:59:47 CDT 2006

I think he's thinking of 2 different things.  the page title is in the /head 
section of a html document.  The headers are in the body.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links

> doesn't the Title ... /Title suffice?
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Michael Hansen wrote:
>
>> 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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