Further the formatting, i.e. the cities as part of the countries is entirely lost as well as the countries as part of the Continents. This is also what I suspected. What can we all do. Put links at the end of sentences on the administrative pages like, the Home Page. In the first case by the time a blind user decides to click on this link, he has passed it.
All screen readers work in a linear fashion.
To move to a different mode in a screen reader, that will highlight links only, may be a not small effort.