[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36644: Make admin menu skip links accessible to developers

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#36644: Make admin menu skip links accessible to developers
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 Reporter:  littler.chicken                |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration                 |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  accessibility, administration  |
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 Currently, the WP admin skip links are hard coded in `menu-header.php` and
 cannot be modified or added on to. Use case here might be a plugin with a
 tabbed settings page; it might be nice to have the "Skip to main content"
 bypass the tabs, since right now keyboard users still have to tab through
 that entire menu, but allow the developer to add a "Skip to plugin
 settings menu" or something similar on their settings page, so that both
 the settings form and the tabs are available, but separate.

 Modifying the output here to use a function with an array and filter can
 be done easily, without changing the current output, and future skip links
 can be simply added to the array.

 A related change should be adding the existing section ID (set in
 `add_settings_section`, so anyone using the Settings API will have already
 done this) to the section title output in `do_settings_section`, to set up
 the appropriate anchor. Developers who want to add a skip link to a
 section on their settings page then just need to add the section ID and
 text to the skip links array, using the filter.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36644>
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