Designing for Accessibility
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to be a bit clever, so they fake their anchors. They write special code to make something which isn’t an anchor behave pretty much like an anchor – the underline, the little hand, the something happening when you click it. Like this. Looks just the same, doesn’t it?
So: what’s the problem?
* Search engines don’t understand them. Search engines use anchors to find their way to your website, and around it. But if the anchors on your page are these tricky, pretend anchors, the search engines won’t understand them, and so won’t be able to read your site.
* Keyboards don’t understand them. If the visitor is using a phone or a TV which doesn’t have a mouse, he has to move from anchor to anchor using the cursor keys or tab keys. Even laptop users often find it easier to use the keyboard than to use the glide-pad. But the anchor
