Usually when I build a navigation it is at the end of the source and a skiplink appears at the top of small viewports linking to it. I then enhance it using CSS and JavaScript so that most devices and browsers get something nicer—an off-canvas interaction perhaps.
The <img> tag all started with this message and has been with us since HTML 2.0. In that time it hasn’t changed much at all, just put a path to an image in the src attribute and you have an image on the screen.