Skip navigation links
Accessibility Priority 3
Section 508 1194.22(o)
"A method shall be provided that permits users to skip
repetitive navigation links."
W3C Checkpoint 13.6
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#group-bypass
Note that the Sun Accessibility Program Office says:
"These jump-to links can be made invisibl" (sic)
Source: http://solaris.eng/accessibility/508_friendly/preamble.html#1194.22o
When running Dreamweaver test on javadoc, it
requests a means for speech synthesizers to skip
over the navigation bar in one or more of these ways:
- Include a link that allows users to skip over the
set of navigation links.
- Provide a style sheet that allows users to hide the
set of navigation links.
- Use the HTML 4.01 MAP element to group links, then
identify the group with the "title" attribute
In the first choice, the skip link does not need to be visible.
We can use a hypertext link with no text: <A HREF="#skip"></A>.
The second choice seems rather burdensome for the user,
as they would need to load that style sheet.
Because the navigation bar is in a table, we could just
mark the table with alternate text, rather than use a
map.
We could put <MAP> around the table. This is the example they give:
<BODY>
<MAP title="Navigation Bar">
<P>
[<A href="#how">Bypass navigation bar</A>]
[<A href="home.html">Home</A>]
[<A href="search.html">Search</A>]
[<A href="new.html">New and highlighted</A>]
[<A href="sitemap.html">Site map</A>]
</P>
</MAP>
<H1><A name="how">How to use our site</A></H1>
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</BODY>