Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 21 months ago

#33726 closed New feature

Django admin needs a skip link — at Initial Version

Reported by: Thibaud Colas Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords: accessibility, keyboard, ux
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: yes

Description

​Skip links are a very common pattern to help keyboard go straight to a page’s main content. They aren’t technically a requirement to meet accessibility standards, but they’re recommended as nice-to-have way to help with issues such as those targeted by WCAG ​SC 2.4.1: Bypass Blocks.

I think the Django admin should have a skip link on all of its pages, so keyboard users can bypass:

  • The header area
  • The sidebar

Here is a simple example to illustrate the problem – it currently takes 32 tab stops to reach the page’s main content on my demo site:

With a skip link, this is reduced to 2 tab stops (and one press of Enter to navigate):

Change History (2)

by Thibaud Colas, 2 years ago

Attachment: 2-tab-stops-one-enter.png​ added

by Thibaud Colas, 2 years ago

Attachment: 32-tab-stops.png​ added
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