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

Jukka J. Korpela wrote:

“I wonder what the specific issue is there. Which software is this about? 

What is the difference, from the user perspective, between 

<nav><ul><li><a href=...>...</a>...</ul></nav> and a <nav> containing 

just <a> elements with some separators, like “→”, between them? How much 

does this matter, and why?”

 

The difference is that  the nav element doesn’t convey (and isn’t intended
to convey) information about a collection. The list provides the semantic
information that tells any/all screen readers that there is a collection of
items displayed on the page.

 

So from the screen reader user’s point of view: The nav element indicates
that the region of the page relates to navigation and provides a landmark
for efficiently navigating to it, where as the list indicates there is a
collection containing a definite number of items.

 

Léonie.

 

 

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