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

> > feedback from (AT) users appears to indicate that when there are links of
> > lists its useful to have them marked up as a list.
>
> 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?
>
> Any effect should be weighed against the obvious effect that in any non-CSS
> rendering situation, the breadcrumb becomes a bulleted list. A bulleted list
> indicates, in any normal usage, a simple list of items – it does not
> indicate a hierarchy, rather lack thereof.

+1.

Steve, do you mind sharing specifics? What AT users, and how many?
What does “appear” mean? And what were they asked? (If asked how to
mark up a list, I’d also say using a list. But here we ask how to
markup breadcrumbs.)

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