- From: Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:54:59 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: W3C Public HTML <public-html@w3.org>
> > That depends on what problem we’re trying to solve now. Is reading > > breadcrumbs as a sentence a problem? I couldn’t test but “Home [pause] > > Foo [pause] Bar” does not look like an issue to me. > > That pause normally just means 'between two words'. And is it certain > that each link is just a single word? What is the problem we’re trying to solve here though? Something like “Home [pause or no pause] Section [pause or no pause] Sub Section” should probably be possible to understand. It would, my thinking when it comes to accessibility, be helpful if the contemplated arrow would cause a marked pause to make clear there is not just one item, but I believe that e.g. indications by screen readers that something is linked might already help here. Like “beep Home beep Section [rather no beep since not linked] Sub Section”. I’m writing this down a bit quickly as this thread is active again but I hope that clarifies. > Why do you, on your own web site (meiert.com), use a <ul> list for the > navigation links on top of each page? Is it a problem if those links > are read as a sentence? Well, this is a navigation menu, not a breadcrumb trail. As I’ve said on this thread and in aforementioned breadcrumbs post, I argue that breadcrumbs are not items of equal/comparable value (because: hierarchy)—but items in a navigation item typically are. For the nav menu on my site, for example, “Archive”, “Bio”, “Contact” are all equals in the site hierarchy. That’s not the case for breadcrumb trails. -- Jens O. Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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