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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Wed, Aug 22 2018 7:16AM
Subject: navigation and accessibility - is the back button enough?
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hey all,
I am hoping someone can help me figure out if 3.2.3 Consistent
Navigation applies here.
A section of a site has a landing page with five links on it -
"About us" is the landing page, and it has links to
 * who we are
 * what we do
 * mission
 * values
 * history
Click any of these links and you get to a page with *no* links to any of
the other "About us" pages. The only way to go through all five links is
to click the back button and go back and forth.
Does this count as inconsistent navigation? It's really missing
navigation. Navigational mechanisms are NOT being repeated on multiple
Web pages. Is there some other WCAG guideline that applies? Is this
actually ok?!
thanks so much!
Sandy
From: Beranek, Nicholas
Date: Wed, Aug 22 2018 7:55AM
Subject: Re: [External Sender] navigation and accessibility - is the back button enough?
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Hi Sandy,
I think that SC 2.4.5 Multiple Ways is more appropriate here:
"More than one way is available to locate a Web page within a set of Web pages except where the Web Page is the result of, or a step in, a process."
As you mentioned, SC 3.2.3 is for when navigation is repeated on multiple pages in the same relative order (e.g. same position relative to others). Since no navigation is present, then it does not apply.
I hope that this helps!
Nick Beranek
Capital One
From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Wed, Aug 22 2018 8:07AM
Subject: Re: [External Sender] navigation and accessibility - is the back button enough?
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Does it EVER help! Thanks so much Nicholas. I needed something to point
to here and you found it.
best, Sandy
On 2018-08-22 9:55 AM, Beranek, Nicholas via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> Hi Sandy,
>
> I think that SC 2.4.5 Multiple Ways is more appropriate here:
>
> "More than one way is available to locate a Web page within a set of Web pages except where the Web Page is the result of, or a step in, a process."
>
> As you mentioned, SC 3.2.3 is for when navigation is repeated on multiple pages in the same relative order (e.g. same position relative to others). Since no navigation is present, then it does not apply.
>
> I hope that this helps!
>
> Nick Beranek
> Capital One
>
>
From: Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO
Date: Wed, Aug 22 2018 8:21AM
Subject: Re: navigation and accessibility - is the back button enough?
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That's a tough one for me. I don't know if 3.2.3 would be the issue, but I'd be concerned about 2.4.8 - location. It's a AAA.
From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Wed, Aug 22 2018 8:28AM
Subject: Re: navigation and accessibility - is the back button enough?
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2.4.8 is what I was looking for.
I can't think of a more effective way to lose someone in a web site than
not to provide navigation. Expecting everyone, including people with
cognitive disabilities, to just remember where they were and go back
seems unrealistic to me.
Sandy
On 2018-08-22 10:21 AM, Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO wrote:
> That's a tough one for me. I don't know if 3.2.3 would be the issue, but I'd be concerned about 2.4.8 - location. It's a AAA.
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