Skip to links...

[Johnny Taylor]

Hi All,

I had an interesting conversation with Michelle today concerning skip to links generally, and how Safari, Chrome and Opera treat their use specifically. Backing it up a bit, I came across a rather interesting — cos it was useful (meaning it worked reliably in a desirable way, with not too hard a set up) — article on skip to links last week, Back to Basics: Skip to Main Content Links. 

Essentially the article (worth the read) puts all browser's on a level playing field. In it causes, through a little jQuery, browsers to actually focus and highlight the target after the skip to link link is activated and navigated to. Ideally so when a keyboard user tabs to the skip links and activates it, and after the browser navigates down the page to the top of the targeted section, their next tab hit actually lands on the first link in the targeted section, versus navigating back up the page to the next link following the original the skip link.

Anyway I implemented it on FSSFive (check my site to see it in action; http://abledaccess.com) my site with very pleasing results.

But Michelle brought up issues related to throwing focus around from a few years back, but couldn't recall any details. Hence she urged my to email the list hoping I'd jog something loose. Is what I did in anyway undesirable? With respect to focus. I'm still fooling with the focus styles, and I'm nearly settled on what seems to me to be a very workable, but largely supportless (in older browsers I mean), solution. Stay tuned for an email or a post regarding that. Most likely both cos I've questions with how it plays with UIO.

Thanks.

Johnny







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