• New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0

• New Zealand Government Web Standards 1.0
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    • 15.4 Skipping over long lists of unwanted links
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15.4 Skipping over long lists of unwanted links

The Standard

15.4 Provide a way for the user to skip over long lists of unwanted links.

Guide to this standard

Skip links above navigation links are the most common method of this.

This standard covers the W3C WAI checkpoint 13.6 for NZ government agencies.

Related Standard

8.4 - Navigational Access Keys defined for NZ Government web sites.

Rationale for this standard

Some screen readers read everything including links. Users of such assistive technology may wish to avoid a multitude of links. Skip links enable this.