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Tailslide Posts: 6046 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: online	Source Order and Accessibility - 12/29/2005 11:52:34 Found an interesting article regarding source order and skip links: http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/#section01 One of the advantages of CSS layouts is that you could easily have the page content before the navigation in the source order to possibly aid accessibility - i.e. people using text readers etc don't have to go through the navigation on every page to get to the actual contents. This article includes some research (although not exactly a massive sample group used) which shows that the majority of users of text readers expect to find navigation BEFORE the content and it could actually be confusing to people if the content came first. 50% of respondents found skip links useful - the more experienced the user, the less they relied on skip links strangely enough - you'd think it would be the other way around. _____________________________ "My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it" Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Blood, Sweat & Rust - A Land Rover restoration project


d a v e Posts: 4087 Joined: 7/24/2002 From: England (but live in Finland now) Status: online	RE: Source Order and Accessibility - 12/30/2005 4:27:29 what's with the weird spacing? like having to scroll down a whole page to see the next thing?? _____________________________ David Prescott Gekko web design (in reply to Tailslide)


Tailslide Posts: 6046 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: online	RE: Source Order and Accessibility - 12/30/2005 5:20:04 You're meant to click on the "next" buttons to go from section to section - for whatever reason they've put it all on one page rather than several. _____________________________ "My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it" Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Blood, Sweat & Rust - A Land Rover restoration project (in reply to d a v e)


caz Posts: 3520 Joined: 10/10/2001 From: Somewhere south of Chester, UK Status: offline	RE: Source Order and Accessibility - 12/30/2005 20:27:54 More research and opinion on navigation - is it really needed any way? quote: Navigation blindness How to deal with the fact that people tend to ignore navigation tools Most web development projects put a lot of effort into the design of navigation tools. But fact is that people tend to ignore these tools. They are fixated on getting what they came for and simply click on links or hit the back button to get there. _____________________________ Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will dance, or more on your keyboard. Cheshire cat. www.doracat.co.uk I remember when it took less than 4hrs to fly across the Atlantic. (in reply to Tailslide)