Accessibility and Skip to Main Content

HTML5 outputs automatically include a “Skip to main content” option when users open the output and press TAB. After encountering this option, they can press ENTER to bypass the navigation.

Example A user who is visually impaired opens your generated output and presses the TAB key. The user is told that she can skip to the main content.

The online Help landing page showing clickable "Skip to Main Content" text.

After pressing ENTER on the keyboard, the user’s experience is that focus moves immediately to the topic content instead of first moving through the logo, menus, and any other skin navigation items.

Selecting "Skip to Main Content" enables focus to other Help items by pressing TAB.