If TSDG is building your website, and we are blueprint stage, you will have seen the skip navigation link at the top of every page.
What is this for? Oddly, not many people ask!
As you know, your blueprint has several functions. The most important one is that is is an exact, graphics-free prototype of your site. Every TSDG staff member who works on your site will use your blueprint as the .. er .. blueprint and will work from what they see there.
You know too that the blueprint becomes the text-only version of your site, which helps in search engines, but is also useful for viewers. For example, people with poor internet connections prefer to use text-only versions.
So do the visually handicapped. These people use assistive devices called screenreaders, which literally read the website aloud. Imagine though, if every time the user went to the page, the screenreader drones "home, about us, our products ...." etc.
By now you've got it. The skip navigation link allows the user to 'tell' the screenreader not to read out all those navigation links at the top, but to get to the content on the page and read that aloud instead.
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