Last modified: 2012-12-21 13:58:12 UTC
Please consider e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism Please view it with w3m or lynx, (or Firefox without the stylesheets.) You see this line: "Jump to: navigation, search". Please make sure you see that line before you proceed reading this bug. If not you are not using the right (text) browsing environment, or are logged in without this preference. OK. Now the problem is: "Jump to: navigation, search" is not enough. For instance, the TOC is also a "hot" destination, hard to get to through all the verbiage. Therefore, the line should read "Jump to: TOC, navigation, search". But wait, for such articles with lots up front template-wise, "section 0" would also be a good destination for a short cut. So "Jump to: Sec 0, TOC, navigation, search". Should all four items always be present, or be present depending on distance needed to reach them on a particular page? Probably they should always be present, so they don't slip around from page to page, making the user have to look closely before clicking. (Perhaps now section 0 is called Lead section... or maybe call the link "content".)
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
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!]
