[thelist] Re: Perkins School for the Blind's new site

[Timothy J. Luoma]

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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