[thelist] Re: Perkins School for the Blind's new site
Timothy J. Luoma
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Fri Sep 13 13:10:01 CDT 2002
James Newbery wrote:
> True, sort of. What the designers have done here is to optimise the
> navigation for their main user group - people with visual
> impairments, while leaving it accessible enough for people without
> visual impairments to use. This is an admirable case of
> forward-thinking, user-centred design.
>
> Instead of providing a link allowing screen-reader users to 'skip
> navigation', they have provided a link for non screen-readers to
> 'skip to navigation'.
FYI I do this -- jump (not skip ;-) *to* navigation -- for many
reasons, but one of them is for search engines like Google that like
your content to be closer to the top of the page.
TjL
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