# Skip to Main

## Steps

1. Place keyboard focus into the browser's address bar
2. Tab until the "Skip to main content" link is visible.
   * Don't hold down Tab key
   * The "Skip to main content" link should be one of the first interactive elements on the page.&#x20;
3. If the "Skip to main content" link does not exist, create an issue.
   * **Description**: Skip to main content link missing
   * Include **Issue Details** from the top of this page
4. Activate the "Skip to main content" link using the Enter key.
   * The browser viewport may adjust for the focus move
5. Tab once to verify that keyboard focus has skipped past the page Header.
6. If the keyboard focus hasn't skipped past the page Header, create an issue.
   * **Description**: Skip to main content
   * Include **Issue Details** from the top of this page

## Creating Issues

Include the following for issues found using this method.

* **Description**: see description suggestions in-line below
* **Priority**: P2
* **Label or Tag**: #a11y241
* **Comment**: Link to [Skip-To MIND Pattern](https://ebay.gitbooks.io/mindpatterns/content/navigation/skipto.html)

### Exceptions

* Pages without repetitive content before the main content may omit the "Skip to main content" link

## About

Author(s): Luis Garcia

Last Updated: 2017 March 02


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