| Title | Set of web pages with invisible skiplink (to main content) at the top |
|---|---|
| Description | A set of web pages - the web site of the fictitious newspaper The Narnia Times - that has a top navigation section at the top of each page.
At the top of each page is an invisible skiplink to the main content. This skiplink is implemented with a single-pixel image
with an alt attribute saying: "Skip to main content".
Note that this skiplink points to an anchor (a element with name and id attributes)
inside a div element with a width defined in a CSS stylesheet.
Setting this width is important to make the skiplink work in Internet Explorer 6, as described by Jim Thatcher in the
article "Skip Navigation" (http://www.jimthatcher.com/skipnav.htm).
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006-10-11 |
| Status | validated |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: a
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The A element
.
This test case is intended to pass because there is an invisible skiplink at the top of every page. Only the use of skip navigation to skip repeated information is tested here.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-skip.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-skip.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-skip.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-skip.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-skip.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-skip.
Screen reader users can use the invisible skip link to skip the top navigation and go to the main content. However, sighted users are unlikely to find the link.
This test case maps to technique G1: Adding a link at the top of each page that goes directly to the main content area.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The test case passes (line 19, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.
Screen reader users can use the invisible skip link to skip the top navigation and go to the main content. However, sighted users are unlikely to find the link.
This test case maps to technique G1: Adding a link at the top of each page that goes directly to the main content area (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#G1).
Online version: 2.4.1_l1_001.