[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21310: Need skip link(s) at top of admin pages

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#21310: Need skip link(s) at top of admin pages
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 Reporter:  grahamarmfield  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Accessibility   |     Version:  3.4.1
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |
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Comment (by PhilippeVay):

 tl;dr People with disabilities can also use a mouse (and an AT)

 Bypass or quick access links to Content, Navigation and Search will only
 work for blind people and/or some users of screen readers if these links
 are ''.visually-hidden'' (out of the viewport).
 Users of other Assistive Technologies (ATs) may not even know there were
 bypass links; for example these links are also useful if you use ZoomText
 and a mouse to jump 3 screens length straight to content (that's how it
 could appear if you zoom at 4 or 500%!)

 For the record ''display: none;'' and ''visually: hidden;'' in CSS will
 completely hide these links to ATs so one could as well remove them from
 HTML code as they'd then be useless.

 Relevant WCAG 2.0 Techniques:
  * [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/G1.html G1: Adding a link at the top
 of each page that goes directly to the main content area]
  * [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/G124.html G124: Adding links at the
 top of the page to each area of the content]
  * and when tabindex is used [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/F44.html
 F44: Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.3 due to using tabindex to create a
 tab order that does not preserve meaning and operability]

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