[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21310: Need skip link(s) at top of admin pages
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#21310: Need skip link(s) at top of admin pages
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Reporter: grahamarmfield | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 3.5
Component: Accessibility | Version: 3.4.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: needs-patch |
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Comment (by PhilippeVay):
tl;dr People with disabilities can also use a mouse (and an AT)
Bypass or quick access links to Content, Navigation and Search will only
work for blind people and/or some users of screen readers if these links
are ''.visually-hidden'' (out of the viewport).
Users of other Assistive Technologies (ATs) may not even know there were
bypass links; for example these links are also useful if you use ZoomText
and a mouse to jump 3 screens length straight to content (that's how it
could appear if you zoom at 4 or 500%!)
For the record ''display: none;'' and ''visually: hidden;'' in CSS will
completely hide these links to ATs so one could as well remove them from
HTML code as they'd then be useless.
Relevant WCAG 2.0 Techniques:
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/G1.html G1: Adding a link at the top
of each page that goes directly to the main content area]
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/G124.html G124: Adding links at the
top of the page to each area of the content]
* and when tabindex is used [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/F44.html
F44: Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.3 due to using tabindex to create a
tab order that does not preserve meaning and operability]
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