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Creating accessible navigation

Creating accessible navigation

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Creating accessible navigation

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- [Instructor] There are lots of designers who are skilled at creating beautiful navigation for people who can see it. What about people who are using things like a screen reader? How can we make their experience of navigating through your website delightful? I'm going to show you how. First, add skip to content. Make it possible to skip your global navigation by adding this function. Blind people frequently use an assistive device called a screen reader. This device reads out the information that they encounter on a website. If your global navigation at the top of the page can't be skipped, a blind person will have to listen to the entire content of your navigation menu before they can find out what else is on your page. You can imagine how frustrating this might be. Next, include only the most relevant and important links in top-level navigation. This means focusing on five to eight elements that showcase the breadth of…

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