Quick accessibility test Skip links

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Learn how to test skip links on your website. For a full text transcript of the video select Show more below. • • Text transcript: • Quick accessibility test: Skip links • For people navigating websites with the keyboard, having to go through a large number of links before reaching the main content of the page can be tiring. For people with motor disabilities who use specialised input devices, this can be even more of a barrier. • Skip links offer people a way to skip entire sections of repeated content, and to quickly reach the main content of the page. Easy to implement, they can be visible on the screen by default, or they can appear when people start navigating a page with a keyboard or similar input device. • Check if your website contains skip links by pressing the Tab key on your keyboard after loading a page. A skip to main content , or a similar link, should appear on the screen. • A page from the TetraLogical website is loaded and a highly noticeable Skip to main content link appears at the top of the screen when the keyboard focus is moved to the page. • Next check that the link works as expected: press the Enter key and check that the focus moves to the main content area. • When the Skip to main content link on the page from the TetraLogical website is activated, the keyboard focus becomes visible around the main content area. • Now, if you press the Tab key again, focus should move to the first actionable Item In the main content. • The focus moves to the first link in the main content area of the TetraLogical page. • To find out more about accessibility, visit our website at tetralogical.com • See the British Sign Language (BSL) version of this video • Quick accessibility test: Skip links ...

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