Comparison
Landmark regionvsSkip link
Landmark region
a screen reader user jumped straight to the main content because the page said where it was.
Structural regions — `main`, `nav`, `header`, `footer`, `aside`, `form` with a name — that assistive technology can enumerate and jump between. They are the equivalent of skimming a page visually, and without them the only way through is linearly from the top. One `main` per page, and names on repeated landmarks so 'navigation' and 'navigation' can be told apart.
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the first thing you reach on Tab is a hidden link that jumps past the navigation.
A link at the very start of the document that moves focus to the main content, so keyboard users are not made to tab through the same forty navigation links on every page. It is normally visually hidden until focused. It only works if the target is actually focusable, which usually means giving the main region a `tabindex="-1"`.
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