# A11y Skip Links

Skip the side navigation and header to reach the main content.

- id: `a11y-skip-links`
- Page: https://agentic-ui-kit.com/components/a11y-skip-links
- Live preview: https://agentic-ui-kit.com/live/component/a11y-skip-links

## Install

```bash
agentic-ui add a11y-skip-links
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/a11y-skip-links
```

## Metadata

- **Level:** block
- **Category:** block
- **Installable in:** Radix UI (registry variant new-york), Base UI (registry variant base-vega)
- **Capabilities:** skip-to-landmark, focus-on-activation, reveal-on-focus, visually-hidden-at-rest, multiple-destinations, focusable-landmark-wrapper, broken-target-reporting, fragment-history-sync, no-js-anchor-fallback
- **Intents:** navigate, configure
- **Suits domains:** saas, operations, settings, ecommerce, knowledge, education
- **Interaction:** keyboard-focus, link-activation, focus-move
- **Screen role:** flow
- **Density:** compact
- **Dark mode:** yes
- **Use it for:** skip the side navigation and header to reach the main content, reach a long results table directly from the first Tab, WCAG 2.4.1 (Bypass Blocks) requirement in an application template, reach the search box without going through a menu of dozens of links
- **Avoid when:** single-region pages with no repeated blocks to bypass, replacing proper landmarks and headings: the set complements them, it does not replace them, modal flows where focus should be trapped, not skipped
- **Preserve when adapting:** focus-movement-semantics, reveal-on-focus, landmark-tabindex, tab-order-position
- **Replace when adapting:** link-labels, destination-ids, surface-tokens
- **Adaptation effort:** low
- **Coupling:** low
- **Quality score:** 9.05/10
- **Quality breakdown:** visual 8/10, responsive 9/10, accessibility 10/10, code 9/10
- **Motion:** profile subtle, library css, reduced-motion fallback yes