Re: 4.13.1 Bread crumb navigation - use of right angle brackets

Jens O. Meiert, Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:58:59 -0500:

> Seems sound, though do you mind elaborating on the second point?
> 
>> 2. have changed it from a OL to UL as in practice i think it makes little
>> difference in this case, the relationship of precedence is provide by the
>> use of the right arrows (thanks jens) to indicate path.
> 
> As noted earlier I summarized the situation in
> <http://meiert.com/en/blog/20131003/breadcrumbs-in-html/>; I’d not
> like to ride this horse for much longer but it would help if you could
> elaborate on the decision to use lists. My view is that they’re not
> necessary.

What about what Niels Matthijs said, in a comment to your post: [1]

]] When you don’t want lists, then at least use block elements to 
differentiate between element. With inline elements a breadcrumb 
becomes a single “sentence” which makes no sense at all. Each link is a 
separate entity, not part of an inline expression. [[

While ”div is a semantically neutral element”,[2] screen readers treats 
it different from span - at least VoiceOver does.

[1] 
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20131003/breadcrumbs-in-html/#comment-237390

[2] 
http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2013/10/using-html5-section-element/#entry-content

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leif halvard silli

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