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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:



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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>&nbsp;&nbsp;
  <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>