[Resolved] Accessibility – creating a "skip navigation" or "skip to content" link

[William]

Hi guys,

I’m working on my first site dealing with accessibility issues. Not so easy. Right now I’m trying to create a “skip to content” link and just not being successful. Is there a blog post or a procedure for doing that. I’ve tried using hooks… but “no go”.

Bill

[Tom]

Hey Bill,

This link exists by default.

Looks like it’s appearing directly above your first Elementor section if you view your site elements in developer tools.

Let me know 🙂

[William]

Thanks Tom. Indeed I see the link. But when I use google vox to read the screen it never reads that, so the listener doesn’t have the option.

Am I not “getting” how this works?
Bill

[Tom]

That’s strange, does it work on one of our demo sites?: https://gpsites.co/tasty/

[William]

Hi Tom,

It DOES work just perfectly for your demo site, Tasty. Maybe I have inadvertently disabled it in using Elementor for the header…? I’ll take a look. Maybe it conflicts with the WP Accessibility plugin I’m trying to use? Don’t know.

[Tom]

It may be worth:

1. Trying with the GP header.

2. If 1 doesn’t work, try disabling the plugin.

Let me know if either of those work 🙂

[William]

Success, Tom!

I had to remove that WP Accessibility plugin because it was blocking your Generatepress Skip-Link. Once I removed the plugin, everything works as it should. The plugin is not so awesome that I care. I would rather have the native skip-link working nicely, which it does now. I think most people that need accessibility probably use their computer operating system’s accessibility functions in concert with the theme capabilities.

Thanks!

[Tom]

No problem! GP itself should be fully accessible out of the box 🙂

[William]

That’s exactly why I used GP for this site… its accessibility. So I’m glad we’ve got it working nicely. Thanks Tom!

[Tom]

Awesome, glad I could help! 🙂

[Eagle]

The skip link works on google browser when I view your sample site, but does not seem to work in Safari?

[Fernando]

Hi David,

Are you referring to this?: https://gpsites.co/tasty/

It seems to be working from my end? Can you try on a different device?

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