We played with this a while back. One of the solutions we played with, we called a Jump Menu, and was as follows:
Make the first field in your form a drop down menu field that can be called with the arrow keys. It's important that it be the first field, because the keyboard shortcut for Home (Shift-Ctrl-Home) will always take the user back to this field. Each value in the drop-down menu corresponds with a section on your form. So if the first value in the menu was "Assignment", then there would be an "Assignment" section on the form. Head that section up with a character field displayed as text. When the section is picked from the drop down, set focus to the section heading. The fact that you created the heading as a character field displayed as text will allow a typical support screen reader like JAWS to "read" the heading back to the user for verification (screen readers have difficulty reading trim text). That was the base design. We even went a few steps further and added required fields within sections as a menu choice and we provided the capability for people to add custom jump points to the Jump Menu. And not really tied to skip navigation, but it's VERY important for 508 to have your tabbing order be very clean and concise. HTH, Tim From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Peter Joran Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 12:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Skip Navigation Question ** All Our customer wants to build in skip navigation into customer facing forms to meet 508 compliance requirements. I've looked on-line and in documentation but I'm finding references on how to do this in Remedy. If anyone has a thought or idea on how to build in skip navigation I would be grateful. Many thanks Pete ARS\ITSM 7604 01 _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
