#33726: Django admin needs a skip link
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Reporter: Thibaud | Owner: nobody
Colas |
Type: New | Status: new
feature |
Component: | Version: dev
contrib.admin | Keywords: accessibility,
Severity: Normal | keyboard, ux
Triage Stage: | Has patch: 0
Unreviewed |
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 1 |
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[https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/skip-nav-links/ Skip links] are a very
common pattern to help keyboard go straight to a page’s main content. They
aren’t technically a requirement to meet accessibility standards, but
they’re recommended as nice-to-have way to help with issues such as those
targeted by WCAG [https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/bypass-
blocks.html SC 2.4.1: Bypass Blocks].
I think the Django admin should have a skip link on all of its pages, so
keyboard users can bypass:
- The header area
- The sidebar
Here is a simple example to illustrate the problem – it currently takes 32
tab stops to reach the page’s main content on my demo site:
With a skip link, this is reduced to 2 tab stops (and one press of Enter
to navigate):
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