Stockholm.se has some fancy skip links, what do you think?
Just got this sent in from Isac Lagerblad asking me what I think. If you go to Stockholm.se and you tab through the links you’ll find that the connected target gets highlighted on focus. I like it, what do you think?
Tags: accessibility, highlight, invitation, skiplinks, spotlight, ui
December 10th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I like it a lot !!
This is actually an great improvement, and it’s extremely clear to the visitor.
December 10th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I like it, but what’s the big deal?
I’ve seen it before and made it before. More webdesigners should use it, ok that’s true.
Mike Cherim has written some blogpost on this issue:
http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=312
http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=57
http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=110
December 11th, 2008 at 1:51 am
Personally, I found it confusing as it’s not standard browser behavior (or is that standard web design behavior?).
Also, the tab sequence changes depending on if you hit enter at various points – i.e. after enter the ‘next’ tab position is not the same as it would have been without pressing enter?
I can see that it’s an attempt at accessibility, just not sure how accessible it is generally (I’m assuming it’s just a visual thing at this point so screen readers and the like would see any difference).