WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

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

for

From: Lucy Greco
Date: Aug 11, 2011 9:36AM

I don't have an opinion about wear on the page it is but I do want to caution that they make sure to have the "you are here" part of the trail not be a link. In so many of these I find that the link to the current page is still left active and this really causes a cognitive block.


Lucy Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7591
http://attlc.berkeley.edu
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:16 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Location of breadcrum trail on a web page, top, bottom, or somewhere in-between?

Hello wise ones.

I am doing an accessibility evaluation of a web page.
It has a breadcrum trail on every page (you are here ... main page -- next page -- etc) (where -- represents a new line character).
This is standard, and I haveno problem with it, per se, though personally I never use them, notunless page titles are extremely nclear.
The location of this breadcrum trail here is the second to last item on the page (after about 5 or 6 different tabs). This is consistent throughout the subpages of the site.
I am wondering, are there best practice guidelines or practical ideas about whether this is good or not.
My gut instinct, at least, is to think that this trail should be close to the top, rather than the bottom. For one thing the user will know it's there (this is a fairly large page, so users may have given up looking for it if they rae confused), and secondly, if this is the wrong page, the user needs to be made aware of the fact before he/she reads through all the content on the page.
Any ideas/counter arguments?
Cheers
-B