Recently a coworker pointed me to an article explaining Why your ‘Skip to Content’ link might not work in WebKit-based browsers like Safari and Chrome. Read the article for details or read my post from September 2005 about Keyboard navigation problems in IE and Safari for a briefer explanation.
In summary: following an in page link (a link that targets an element on the same page, like <a href="#main">Skip to main content</a>) does not properly move keyboard focus in WebKit browsers. This means that when you press tab after activating an in page link, focus is moved to the first focusable element after the link rather than the first focusable element after the target.
Posted in Accessibility, Browsers.
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