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

2013-11-11 17:12, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 13:34, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> I fail to see what impact this would have on software and users. The
>> number of items is no more (and no less) definite than in the other
>> case. (And a browser cannot tell the number without parsing and counting
>> the <li> elements, just as it can count <a> elements.)
>
> The difference is that assistive technology already currently DOES 
> announce how many items are in a list.
>
Well, some do. Is it useful in this case? Breadcrumbs typically have a 
small number of items, so announcing the amount might be seen as a 
distraction rather than useful. (For example, ”You are here:  List of 
two items. Bullet, home. Bullet, news. End of list.” as opposite to ”You 
are here: Home, arrow, news.”)

So if we write breadcrumbs as <ul>, shouldn’t we ask whether we can 
prevent such a behavior?

Considering lists in general, there’s a point in hearing that, say, a 
bulleted list of forty-two items follows. But then the question is: if 
we select markup according to expected user agent rendering, e.g. using 
<ul> because it gives the user a count (as opposite to, say, using <p> 
that presumably does not give a count of <a> children), isn’t this very 
much comparable to selecting markup just according how some  browser 
render it? (Say, using <blockquote> to get indentation.)

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