Re: Breadcrumb design pattern

That is good advice Jason. Would it be enough to link to the navigation role/nav element warning about this?

It makes sense to me to make it navigation as that's its purpose. I'd argue that a breadcrumb is more important than cruft in a fat footer. 

That said, if not a nav, what then?

—Michiel

> On 28 Jul 2016, at 03:15, Jason Kiss <jason@accessibleculture.org> wrote:
> 
> Is it always appropriate for breadcrumbs to be a navigation landmark?
> Might it not depend on the site/page and the other navigational
> sections it contains? I'd say it's a judgment call for the author
> whether the breadcrumbs represent a section of "major navigation
> blocks". Yes, that is a note from the definition of <nav>, but given
> that <nav> maps to a navigation landmark, there's a certain
> equivalence. It's how I decide whether or not a navigation block
> deserves the <nav> element: Is it so major a navigation block that it
> deserves to be a landmark? I think that landmarks tend to get overused
> and thus lose their effectiveness: how useful is a landmark in a sea
> of landmarks?
> 
> I often recommend against breadcrumbs being a navigation landmark if
> there are a number of other navigational landmarks, e.g. main menu,
> section menu, fat footer menu with more than the typical links to
> copyright, privacy, etc., and especially if these exist among a whole
> bunch of other landmarks.
> 
> Maybe it's worth noting something along these lines in the authoring practice?
> 
> Jason
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Michiel Bijl <michiel@agosto.nl> wrote:
>> Oh right, well, the agenda for the week after that works too :)
>> 
>> The markup you suggest is what is in the code example. As for a separate
>> landmark region, you mean a new role of breadcrumb?
>> 
>> —Michiel
>> 
>> On 28 Jul 2016, at 00:27, Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> We are not having a meeting until the 8th, right?
>> I would like to suggest that the breadcrumb be exposed as an ordered list
>> inside a labeled navigation landmark.
>> <div role=”navigation” aria-label=”breadcrumb”>
>> <ol>
>> <li><a href=”/”>Main page</a></li>
>> <li><a href=”/categorypage”>Category page</a></li>
>> <li><a href=”/categorypage/subpage” aria-current=”page”>Current
>> subpage</a></li>
>> </ol>
>> </div>
>> 
>> I think a separate landmark region is appropriate for this, of course it is
>> just one man’s opinion.
>> 
>> 
>> From: Michiel Bijl [mailto:michiel@agosto.nl]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 6:48 PM
>> To: Matt King <mck@fb.com>
>> Cc: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
>> Subject: APG: Breadcrumb design pattern
>> 
>> Hi Matt,
>> 
>> During today's London Accessibility Meetup I've pushed the breadcrumb design
>> pattern to the Editor's Draft after a short review with the crowd. Can we
>> add this to next week's agenda please? It includes a short description and
>> code example all ready to go.
>> 
>> —Michiel
>

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