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Navigational Links
Web page developers routinely place a number of site-specific
navigational links at a standard location - often across the top,
bottom, or side of a page. When a visitor accesses a page the
website, instead of selecting a navigation link to go to another page,
the visitor may simply look past the links and begin reading wherever
the desired text is located. For visitors that use screen readers or
other types of assistive technologies, however, it can be tedious to
wait for the assistive technology to announce each of the standard
navigational links before getting to the real content.
To address this annoyance, web page developers should provide a
mechanism, such as a jump link, that enables users to skip repetitive
navigational links. The accesskey
in the example source
code specifies a key that takes the Web visitor to go directly to the
input field. The key is pressed along with the ALT key to invoke the
shortcut. Here is an example of a jump link:
source code for above :
<a href="#skip" title="Skip navigation links"></a>
<table width="550" summary="layout">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="center">
<a accesskey="d" href="download.html">Download</a>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="center">
<a accesskey="p" href="prev.html">Previous
Page</a>
<a accesskey="n" href="next.html">Next
Page</a>
</td>
<td align="right" valign="center">
<a accesskey="s" href="search.html">Search</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<a name="skip"></a>