[Athen] Safari issues with skip to content link

Ken Petri petri.1 at osu.edu
Tue Sep 14 03:29:58 PDT 2010


Hi Brian,

Has the developer enabled tabbed browsing in Safari. It is not turned on by
default....

Best regards,
ken
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Brian Richwine <blrichwine at gmail.com>wrote:


> How is the link coded? I'm wondering about the technique used to hide the

> link. If CSS is being used, and a "display:none" or "visibility:hidden" rule

> is being applied, then the link will be treated as if it does not exist.

>

> This is how we usually recommend coding a skip navigation link in the HTML.

> We place it immediately after the body element to users don't have to hunt

> for it:

>

>> <body>

>>

>> <div id="skipnav"><a href="#startcontent">Skip to Content.</a></div>

>>

>> <div id="row-top">

>>

>

> And this is how we code the CSS to go along with it. This method allows the

> link to become visible when it receives focus. This enables the skip

> navigation link to be visible to all keyboard only users (not just

> screen-reader users!):

>

>> /* Hide skip to content link */

>>

>> #skipnav a, #skipnav a:hover, #skipnav a:visited {

>>

>> position: absolute;

>>

>> left:-9999px;

>>

>> top:auto;

>>

>> width:1px;

>>

>> height:1px;

>>

>> overflow:hidden;

>>

>> }

>>

>>

>>

>> /* Make skip to content link visible when focused */

>>

>> #skipnav a:active, #skipnav a:focus {

>>

>> position:static;

>>

>> color:#000000;

>>

>> width:auto;

>>

>> height:auto;

>>

>> outline: thin dotted black;

>>

>> }

>>

>

>

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brusnighan, Dean A. <dabrus at purdue.edu>wrote:

>

>> A web developer on our campus is instituting a skip to content link to get

>> past repetitive navigation, but is having trouble when testing with the

>> Safari browser on both PC and Mac. He says It never gets to any

>> in-browser tabs. It bounces from URL to browser search to web page search

>> to search button to radio button back to URL without ever hitting the skip

>> to content link.

>>

>>

>>

>> Another developer suggested setting tab index to 1, and they had already

>> done that. Still the same result.

>>

>>

>>

>> Any suggestions?

>>

>>

>>

>> Dean

>>

>>

>>

>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>>

>> Dean Brusnighan

>>

>> Assistive Technology Specialist

>>

>> Purdue University, Young Hall

>>

>> 155 S. Grant Street

>>

>> West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108

>>

>> Phone: 765-494-9082

>>

>> dabrus at purdue.edu

>>

>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>>

>>

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