Hidden skip to content link

[Thantos]

One of the suggestions for making web pages more accessible is to provide a link that skips over all of the repetitive navigation menu.  This allows someone who is using a page reader to skip over all the junk and get stright to the meat of the page.

For my pages I just use a link that is hidden via CSS that points to a predefined ID.  It would require the addition of a text string of course.

[H]

Personally I run my browser fullscreen so I can obviously see atleast the first post without having to scroll (atleast on sites without excessive navigation menus). I can see that this may have some advantages on old resolutions or when the window isn't fullscreen but then scrolling is the tradeoff you get IMO

[Thantos]

Um this isn't so much for you but for people who are using assisting technology.  Imagine turning off the CSS and having to read all of the navigation and other header stuff before you can get to the important stuff.

[Eliana Tamerin]

Wow, I just looked at one of my sites with the lynx browser, with TP, and there's A LOT of header crap on there.

I agree with this.

[H]

ah I see your point. I rarely use anything other than Firefox. Perhaps SMF could just add an option to hide the header as a profile option? Otherwise wouldn't you still have to skip over a bit to get to the skip link (on a text based browser for example)?

[Thantos]

No, you would put the skip link right after the body tag before anything else.