Benefits of SkipTo to Users

User Benefits
Physical Impairment
  • Improved options for keyboard navigation to regions of a web page.
  • If SkipTo menu button is visible when page loads:
    • Feature easy to identify without interacting with the page.
    • Voice recognition users can just say "click skip to content" to get a list of regions.
Blind and Low Vision
  • Get a filtered list of landmarks and headings to find author identified important regions of a web page.
Everyone
  • View high level outline of the regions of a web page.
  • Directly navigate to a regions using the mouse.
  • People not familiar with landmarks and/or headings can learn about them in a functional way.
Designers and Developers
  • Use existing landmarks and headings to identify important regions of a web page.
  • Provide high level outline of the regions of a web page to all users.
  • Higher reliability since menu item targets are programmatically determined (e.g. no more broken "Skip to main" links).
  • Support easy verification of the functional use landmarks and headings for oriention and navigation to page content.