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

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>> 3) The arrows should not be content but CSS in my opinion.
>>
>
> the arrows convey direction to sighted users and I think they should also
> convey direction to other users too, having them in text means that they
> are announced by AT for example. NVDA announces: (→ "right arrow")
>
> list with 4 items
> You are here:
> link
> Main
>  →
> link
> Products
>  →
> link
> Dishwashers
>  →
> Second hand
>
>
Is this really a good idea? Isn't this the same problem of mixing style
with structure?

The style isn't a graphical style, but an auditory style.

If aria roles are used to markup the breadcrumbs and then isn't the screen
reader able to describe the content in the appropriate fashion?

<nav role="breadcrumbs">
    <ol>...</ol>
</nav>

So, the announcement would be:

"breadcrumb navigation"
"list with 4 items"
...

Seems better than requiring some plaintext construct to markup a list of
links.

Thanks,
Cameron Jones