Skip Links: The Door Nobody Sees

Every page Rachel visits makes her walk the same long hallway first. Logo. Menu. Menu. Menu. Forty links before the content even starts.

Rachel navigates by keyboard — one Tab press at a time. On every page. All day long.

A skip link is a shortcut hiding at the very top of the page. Press Tab once, and it appears: skip the menu, land straight on the content.

Most visitors never notice it — it only shows up when the keyboard calls for it. For Rachel, that one hidden door saves hundreds of key presses a day.

Now she starts where everyone else starts: at the content.

💡 The scenario I shared is a fictionalized composite informed by patterns I've seen firsthand. The people are fictional; the accessibility barriers are real.

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