I think the skip to content links were more useful in the days when
screen readers didn't support hierarchical navigation or tried to skip
past headers when automatically reading a new page. I myself don't ever
use them now. One reason, is that I think they sometimes screw up your
history. For example, if I click on the skip to content link on a page,
and then I do a alt+left-arrow, will it take me to the previous page or
not? I'd like it to take me to the previous page whether I clicked on
the skip to content link or not.

I'd suggest using a heading or a land mark to denote the start of the
content. I know the first thing I do when entering a new page is start
using the hierarchical navigation keys, such as 'h' for headings.

On 07/01/13 23:51, Ana G wrote:
> I don't think I've ever used the Skip Navigation link. I always jump to
> header first. Then I may try other screen reader navigation commands.
> Finally, I use the arrow keys. In fact, if I'm new or relatively new to
> a website, I do a lot of arrowing around to find out what's there, etc.
> 
> One thing I notice in Windows is that screen reader navigation commands
> don't always work. Though this happens more often with Jaws, I don't
> think it's a Jaws issue. For example, at work I sometimes use a page
> with a single checkbox in it. I can get to the checkbox with the arrows
> or with the tab key, but the screen reader says there are no checkboxes
> when I try the jump-to command. I've figured out that, if the checkbox
> is in a frame and focus is outside the frame, the screen reader won't
> find it. Sometimes the same thing happens with tables: the screen reader
> doesn't look for the element inside the table if focus is somewhere
> else. But this isn't consistent.
> 
> This is relatively new behavior (within the last year or so), and
> because of it, I notice I'm less trusting in what the screen reader
> reports.
> 
> 
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