And by the way, say one has pleasantly browsed one's way all the way
down to the References,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism#References
and one wishes to skip the certain screen after screen of references
(well, actually not that many for this particular article) and see
what lies beyond them.

So maybe
[edit] References
should be
[edit] [skip] References
Where [skip]'s href="#name of next section".

OK, let this particular sub bug wait for: better browser features, or
the Reference Team's newer templates, instead of messing up MediaWiki
to implement it.

LATER per comment 1

GregUbben wrote:

This feature as implemented is mostly useless anyway. New users (including screen reader users) will never see it since the default skin hides it via display:none. And regular users will have found the other shortcuts to reach these sections of the page.

1. Text browsers are not thrown off track by "display:none".

2. The current version has now absconded with any jump downward link

at all!

3. Therefore the only way for text browser users to get anywhere other

than the items offered in the Table of Contents, if any, is to "go
search for it with your browser's 'search string' function". Of course
one needs previous knowledge of what one is searching for.

Else one must just scroll through the whole article.

What I'm saying is for fancy browser users, all the Edit, History, Preferences, Contributions links are right there at the top of the page.

But for text browser users, its "Go dig for them, Holmes."

OK the "Jump to" link is back...

No, the Jump to link is not back.

Still valid in 1.21wmf6.
[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html . Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest". For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]

The relevant WCAG 2.0 success criterion is SC 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks: "A mechanism is available to bypass blocks of content that are repeated on multiple Web pages. (Level A) "

MediaWiki by itself probably does well enough to pass this, but if editors add cleanup templates and the like to the content area, then the resulting content would fail this criterion. MediaWiki should probably provide editors the ability to add a "lead" link to the jump list.

Jidanni requested a TOC link, although the existing <h2>Contents</h2> is apparently good enough for WCAG purposes. Similarly for skipping references.

By the way, using

$ w3m -dump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism

There are these weird "[ ]"'s

Namespaces

  • Article
  • Talk

[ ]

Variants

Views

  • Read
  • Edit
  • View history

[ ]

@Jidanni: Please file separate task for separate issues unrelated to this task.
Furthermore, it seems w3m ignores style="display:none" CSS which I don't consider something to fix or change in MediaWiki.