- From: Eadie, David <D.Eadie@gcal.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:13:38 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Folks, Jakob Nielsen's latest e-mail included this text: "For Web designers, this means that the time is over when you had to discuss whether to use breadcrumbs. The answer is clear now: yes, use breadcrumbs if your IA lends itself to hierarchical navigation." Such a timely intervention, as I am about to address this issue with my students. Personally, I view a breadcrumb trail as being, semantically, hierarchical; which suggests to me that it should be marked up as a nested list. However, I find that the RNIB website marks up its breadcrumb trail as an unordered list where each hypertext element of the breadcrumb trail uses the following mark-up code: <li><a href="...">element</a> > </li> I have also come across websites which do not use a list for their breadcrumb trail. I accept that, to a visual user, it matters not how the breadcrumb trail is marked up; however I would like to know the preferred approach for a non-visual user. Also, using CSS, I have attempted to introduce some text in order to make the semantic nature of the breadcrumb trail apparent to an 'aural' user. Alas, I have had no success with IBM's Home Page Reader, nor with my version of JAWS. I have had success in obtaining my required 'equivalent breadcrumb trail' when I have used the same CSS and applied it to the printer. Is the LINK element's media="aural" currently supported by any assistive technology? Cheers, Dave David Eadie Lecturer Decision Analysis & Risk Caledonian Business School Glasgow Caledonian University Tel: 0141-331-8775 Fax: 0141-331-3199 email: d.eadie@gcal.ac.uk
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