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Re: Location of breadcrum trail on a web page, top, bottom, or somewhere in-between?

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From: YOUNGV5
Date: Aug 11, 2011 8:27AM

Tim I agree that breadcrumb navigation is important and I feel the
placement of breadcrumb navigation typically appearing below the heading
is misguided. I'm starting to feature the breadcrumb navigation in my
work more predominantly.

Quickly put together a sample wireframe:

http://webhipster.com/testing/accessibility/breadcrumb/




Vincent Young
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08/11/2011 08:32 AM
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Re: [WebAIM] Location of breadcrum trail on a web page, top, bottom, or
somewhere in-between?
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It seems to me that a breadcrumb would be a fairly important navigational
feature of a page since it tells the user where he or she is at and
provides a way to back track through the structure of the site (at least
the parts they have visited.) My thought is that would seem to indicate
that the information be fairly prominent on the page. It should be easy
for the user to visually spot--though it wouldn't be the most prominent
thing on the page.
That causes me to think that the information needs to be both visually and
auditorially prominent. Whether you are looking at the page or listening
to it, I would think it needs to be something that is easy enough to
locate if you want or need the information.

Placing the bread crumb early in the reading order of the page would
definitely be one way to give it prominence and make it easy to find. I
suppose making it a header might be another way to give it prominence and
make it easy to find for people using screen readers. Possibly using
landmarks might also do the same.

Thanks,
Tim