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A 32-second explainer of Skip links, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
A skip link is a link - often visually hidden until it receives keyboard focus, but never hidden from assistive technology - that lets you bypass a repeated block, usually the navigation, and jump straight to the main content. Sighted mouse users rarely see it; keyboard users would be lost without it.
Without the skip link you had to Tab through every nav item before you reached the content - on every page. With it, one keypress and one press of Enter took you straight there. That's the whole point: a door past the furniture you've already walked through a hundred times.
