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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@nationwide.com
Date: Aug 11, 2011 10:42AM

> 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.

Breadcrumb fail!

Vincent Young
User Experience, Web Accessibility Specialist
Nationwide Corporate Marketing
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Re: [WebAIM] Location of breadcrum trail on a web page, top, bottom, or
somewhere in-between?
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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


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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