Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 08/06/07 15:42

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Dylan Parry
<usenet@dylanparry.com> writing in news:46b73b6f$0$646$bed64819
@news.gradwell.net:

> I've been wondering lately about navigation and accessibility. There
are
> two places that the navigation can "live":
>
> 1) Before the content;
> 2) After the content
>
> But which is best from an accessibility point of view? I used to think
> that it was best to put the content first and the navigation following
> it, but started to think about it - what's more annoying: having to
> select a "skip navigation" link/listening to the same navigation on
> every page; or realising you're on the wrong page but having to listen
> to 20 paragraphs of content before getting to the navigation?
>
> For that reason, I'm inclined to think that perhaps the best place for
> the navigation is indeed before the content with a link to skip it. I
> know I'd rather select that link on each page that wade through the
> content just to get to the next page!
>
> What are your thoughts on this issue?
>

I agree with you. If you look at a page using Opera in small screen
mode, or maybe on a phone or something, it's immediately clear that the
skip link and navigation is right at the top. Imagine this -- the
Internet, 2007 - you are on a small device and you've Googled for
something and find the index page, but really need a subpage. You get to
the page, and have to wade through all that content, just to get to the
navigation where the subpage is you want -- and you're doing this on your
phone where you get charged oodles per minute.

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