- Success Criterion 2.4.1
- Conformance level A
No Skip Link, Landmarks, or Headings to Bypass Navigation
2.4.1 — Bypass Blocks
Scenario
Setting
A crowdfunding platform's campaign page
What’s wrong
No skip link, no landmarks (coded page regions), no headings — repeated header/nav must be traversed on every page.
Example
<nav><!-- 20 links --></nav><main><!-- content --></main>Why it matters
Keyboard and screen-reader users who otherwise re-traverse repeated headers on every page.
How to test
Press Tab once on page load: check whether any skip link, landmark navigation, or heading-based bypass exists at all — absence of all three fails.
How to fix
A working bypass (a skip link visible on focus, landmarks (coded page regions), or headings) must let users jump straight to the main content.
<a href="#main" class="skip-link">Skip to main content</a><nav><!-- 20 links --></nav><main id="main"><!-- content --></main>A skip link (or landmarks/headings) lets keyboard users bypass repeated navigation instead of tabbing through it every page.
Outcome
On a crowdfunding platform's campaign page, this barrier is gone for keyboard and screen-reader users who otherwise re-traverse repeated headers on every page — they can finish what they came here to do.
Who is affected
Keyboard and screen-reader users who otherwise re-traverse repeated headers on every page.
Learn more
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Related scenarios
- Page With No Way to Skip Repeated Navigation
- Skip Link That’s Broken and Doesn’t Actually Move Focus
- Skip Link That’s Never Visible, Even on Keyboard Focus
- Skip Link Placed After the Navigation It’s Meant to Skip
- Landmarks Used as a Bypass but Missing Key Content
- Bypass Mechanism With No Heading to Land On