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

I have updated the advice on marking up breadcrumb navigation:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/common-idioms.html#rel-up

review and feedback welcome.

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 26 January 2013 17:00, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> Section 4.13.1 Bread crumb navigation (under Common idioms without
> dedicated elements [1])
>
>  encourages the use of the right angle bracket to indicate a
> breadcrumb navigation trail:
>
> <p>
>   <a href="/">Main</a> >
>   <a href="/products/">Products</a> >
>   <a href="/products/dishwashers/">Dishwashers</a> >
>   <a>Second hand</a>
>  </p>
>
> The use of > in this context does not appear to be a good practice to
> promote as the angle bracket is a symbol that depending on user agent
> (AT in this case) is typically announced as "greater" or not announced
> in this context. Either way it is not clearly convyed that its a
> breadcrumb trail.
>
>
>  It may be that this is not an issue for users who consume the angle
> brackets in this context and the pattern of its use conveys that it is
> a breadcrumb trail. If it is a problem I suggest that this example
> would need to be revisited to see if we can come up with something
> that is more useful to a wider range of users.
>
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/common-idioms.html#common-idioms
>
> --
> with regards
>
> Steve Faulkner
>