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

On 13/11/2013 18:34, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> What is the relevance of “list of 3 items” here? If you are looking for
> a breadcrumb and you hear about navigation, how does the count help? Do
> you mean that if it said “list of 42 items”, you would decide that it is
> not a breadcrumb?

I don't think anybody was arguing that having the list markup will 
signal "this is a breadcrumb" to an AT user.

The reason for having a list was more fundamentally: when you have lots 
of links, it's a well-trodden cowpath / pattern to mark these up as a 
list. And in that context, knowing if I'm about to encounter 3 or 42 
links is quite significant (in that I know whether I can/should work my 
way through them individually, or just skip the entire block).

>  So
> what is the logical reason why a breadcrumb should be an <ol>, or (on
> some odd grounds) a <ul>?

The same logical reason for which the large majority of sites mark up 
general navigation (be it styled horizontally or vertically) as a list...

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