[Nfb-web] Nfb-web Digest, Vol 24, Issue 8

Mon May 8 10:28:08 CDT 2006

I just completed a course on the fundamentals and design of the
Internet, a course in which we had to write web pages which were
validated by an HTML World Wide Web Consortium validator.  I inserted
the html coding into my documents and I was able to validate the web
pages.  I tested the page using JAWS 7.0 to ensure that the coding did,
in fact, allow JAWS to skip to the main content of the page.  I am happy
to say that it did.  

Just in case this is not totally clear, the open body tag here follows
the closing header tag.  I hope that works for you.  

<body>
<a href="#skip navigation links"><img src="transparent.gif" alt="skip
navigation links" border="0" width="1" height="1"/></a>

I hope this helps.

Take care,
Patty
Patty Thorsen
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Today's Topics:

   1. Skip to Content Links (Peter Donahue)
   2. Re: Skip to Content Links (Ryan Smith)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 16:37:21 -0500
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links
To: <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
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Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"

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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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 16:50:24 -0500
From: "Ryan Smith" <ryansmith78 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Skip to Content Links
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Message-ID: <001301c67157$14e28200$0202a8c0 at DESKTOP>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
	reply-type=original

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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