Category Archives: Skip Navigation

Skip Navigation for web pages

Simple Accessibility Updates to Improve New York Times New Redesign – Part 2

For those following along, this is Part 2 of my series on how the New York Times can make simple updates to improve their website’s accessibility. “Part 1 – Simple Accessibility Updates to Improve New York Times New Redesign” is … Continue reading

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How to Improve Your Search Usability

Doing searches on websites is a pain when you are using assistive technology. There are ways to improve how you get to the results. Why not add an HREF anchor like #maincontent, which we used for the “Skip Navigation” article … Continue reading

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How to Hide “Required” from Visual Users, but Make it Available for All Others

How do most people usually designate that a field is “Required” in a web FORM? I would think that it is with an asterisk (*) after the actual INPUT field and it is sometimes made “bold” and “RED”. There are … Continue reading

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Are You Using Skip Navigation?

Skip navigation is a great thing to have on your website for a lot of reasons. Here is a list of just a few of them the greatest ones being the first two, that they make websites more accessible to … Continue reading

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Further Explanation of My Accessibility Presentation

Over the next few weeks YEARS, I will post in more detail different sections of my “Is Your Website Accessible” presentation. Two of the topics I have already covered on my blog are: Use of UL or OL in HTML … Continue reading

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