[Sigia-l] accessible navigation (was Right Side Navigation)

[Tanya Rabourn]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Samantha Bailey wrote:
> This doesn't advance the right side nav debate, but I thought I'd share an
> experience we've had with usability testing and accessibility. One of the
> issues we've had with blind users in usability tests and our left navigation
> is that blind users have grown frustrated having to listen to the full left
> nav repeated on every page.

Have you tried using "skip nav" as an anchor point link to
wisk them past it (whether hidden from visual browsers with
CSS or not[1])? At one point this seemed to be the going
wisdom for dealing with that problem. Did you find that had
a downside?

-Tanya

1)http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility