[jaws-uk] Re: Repetitive Navigation Links

Hina Keval wrote:
I am testing a web interface using the section 508 guidelines. One of the guidelines requires me to test the following:
A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links. 

How can I test for this using JAWS version 9.0?


It depends on how you interpret what that regulation requires.
Interpretation 1: The page needs to provide markup that facilitates user agent features for skipping repetitive navigation links.
In this interpretation, heading, list, and paragraph markup, combined with features such as keyboard shortcuts moving to headings (Opera browser, JAWS, Window-Eyes), skipping groups of links to the next text (JAWS, Window-Eyes), navigation by block (Apple VoiceOver), spatial navigation (Opera Desktop), arrowing around the page (Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8), and list compression and expansion (Opera Mini) meet this requirement.
Some users will be stuck because their chosen user agent doesn't include any functionality like this. e.g. the best you could do in Internet Explorer 6 without any assistive technology software is use the find command to jump to later text.
The test here would be to check that the markup is correct by viewing source. You could also use the JAWS commands for navigating between list items and headings to check the markup is working correctly.
Intepretation 2: The page needs (additionally) to provide a mechanism for skipping repetitive navigation links, independent of user agent features until common user agents include such features.
This is an interpretation influenced by WCAG 1.0. Here, you need to check the same as for Interpretation 1, but also check for the existence skip links when there are lots of navigation links.
I'm a web developer not a lawyer and tend to be looking at WCAG 2.0 not Section 508, so please don't consider this advice authoritative. 

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