Web Accessibility:Navigation

Web & Databases

• Personal www4 websites
• Engr People websites
• Research Websites
• Infrastructure
• Requests
• Databases
• Site Statistics
• WebTest Sites
• Student Organizations
• Web Accessibility
  • Layout and Structure
  • Presentation and Styles
  • Navigation
  • Forms
  • Scripting
  • Electronic Documents
  • Non-Textual Content
  • Validation Tools

• Provide a method to skip repetitive links
• Group menu links into logical sets and sub sets across the site, use <H> tags for each group heading
• Develop a vertical rather than horizontal hierarchy of menu items and use <UL> tag to create list of links
• Label links so that they make sense when removed from context
• Avoid duplicate link names

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Resources

[1] Seven steps to easy navigation

[2] Designing Web Navigation

[3] Breadcrumbs

[4] Effective Web Navigation

[5] Designing Accessible Navigation

[6] Web Accessibility Best Practices- Navigation