Level A · WCAG 2.0
2.4.1 Bypass Blocks
There is a way to skip past blocks that repeat on every page.
Automated A failure is reliably detectable.
How it fails in practice
A forty-link mega-menu that a keyboard user tabs through on every single page before reaching the content.
How to fix it
Add a skip link as the first focusable element, and use landmark elements — header, nav, main, footer — so assistive tech can jump between regions.
At a glance
- Level
- Level A — the minimum. Failing one of these usually makes something impossible rather than merely hard.
- Principle
- Operable
- Guideline
- 2.4 Navigable
- Added in
- WCAG 2.0
- EN 301 549
- 9.2.4.1
- Automated check
- Automated
Automated
How far an automated check gets
A tool can decide this one. A failure is a measurable fact, and finding none is real evidence rather than an absence of looking — which makes this one of the few criteria where a clean automated result means something on its own.
Detected automatically: whether a skip mechanism or a proper set of landmarks exists on the page.
Related criteria
Other criteria under the same guideline.
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