Re: [breadcrumbs] best practice from Michiel Bijl on 2017-11-20 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from October to December 2017)

From: Michiel Bijl <michiel.list@moiety.me>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:05:15 +0100
To: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
Cc: "Fathauer, Laura" <fathauer@ohio.edu>, Harry Loots <harry.loots@ieee.org>, Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>, Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>, W3C WAI ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
Message-Id: <E1CCC34C-8095-42D5-88C4-650EDB7B1086@moiety.me>

Current APG advice is to use a nav-element with an aria-label of “breadcrumb”.

— Michiel

> On 20 Nov 2017, at 17:42, Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com> wrote:
> 
>> My rationale is that users tabbing through the page will be able to land on
>> that link and hear “current page” and therefore be able to know that the
>> breadcrumb hierarchy of links ends with that link and where that page sits.
> 
> Wouldn’t that be reasonably clear already if a breadcrumb is announced
> with “You are here,” making this more an issue of context?
> 
> -- 
> Jens Oliver Meiert
> https://meiert.com/en/
>

Received on Monday, 20 November 2017 17:05:41 UTC