Bellevue College

Web Publishing Guide

Standards: Rules of the Road

Web Standards are the rules of the road for college website managers and application developers.

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Requirement 14

Skip Repetitive Navigation*

Provide a method for the reader to skip over the navigation of your site and jump directly to the site’s content.
(Reference: DOJ, Section 508: o)

Examples:

A. Use a text link or an invisible (transparent) gif with the ‘ALT’ attribute value “skip navigation.”

How to insert a skip navigation with a text link:

<A HREF="#body">skip navigation</A>    <!-Navigation links go here -->    <A NAME="body"></A> page content goes here


How to insert a skip navigation with a transparent image:

 <A HREF=”#body”><IMG SRC=”transparent.gif”           ALT=”skip navigation”></A>    <!-Navigation links go here -->    <A NAME="body"></A> page content goes           here

*Pages that are developed in support of projects that receive federal funding through a grant or other means are bound to comply with federal accessibility standards which are enforced by the U.S. Access Board as of June 2001. For more information about this requirement, please review the Section 508 home page at www.section508.gov/.