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Before the main content, there can be navigation links, search, or other elements. For keyboard and screen reader users it can be frustrating to get to the main content of a page because you have to tab through all these elements every time over and over again. By implementing a skip link (also known as skip to content links), those users can skip all these elements and jump right into the content.
These are good practices about skip to content links:
The link should be the first focusable element in the page.
The link can, but doesn’t have to be, visible all the time for all users.
If the link is visually hidden at first, it must be visible when keyboard focus moves to the link.
If the link is clicked, it should move focus to the main content.
Skip to content link when focused
Note that even though all content should be inside a landmark region, skip links can be outside any landmarks. If a user is mainly navigating by landmarks, skip links inside a landmark may be just extra info.
Skip navigation links in webaim. In this article there is also information can there be multiple skip links and most common wording for skip to content.