[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
>>
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>>
>> 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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