Hello,

at my site, I have a place where the user can skip the navigation (as it is rather large) and change the text size. I would like to know if the "text resizer and navigation skipper" should:

1. be right below the tagline and logo header (current setup)

or 2. be much lower on the page such as above the footer, but then using css, make it in the upper right place it is now.

Now I'm thinking about semantics and useability and search engine optimization (where items towards the top of the page are rated higher than ones on the lower part).

Here's a page where you can see the text resizer in the upper right

http://carterdea.com/about

thanks all!

If it's lower on the page in terms of code, the user won't be able to skip the navigation since in theory, it will appear in the tab order above the menu.

You can use absolute positioning in CSS to make it appear near the top for design even if it's near the bottom of the HTML. Supposedly this has a small positive effect on SEO, but of course should appear normally to people. The term for doing this is "source-ordering". There has been some debate about how effective and worthwhile source-ordering is, most of it centering around screen readers.