# Understanding Location

## In brief

Goal
  Users know where they are in a set of pages.
What to do
  Use breadcrumbs, site maps, or other indicators to give context.
Why it's important
  Location indicators reduce confusion for people with cognitive disabilities.

## Intent of Location

The intent of this Success Criterion is to provide a way for the user to orient herself within a set of Web pages, a Web site, or a Web application and find related information.

## Benefits of Location

- This Success Criterion is helpful for people with a short attention span who may become confused when following a long series of navigation steps to a Web page. It is also helpful when a user follows a link directly to a page deep within a set of Web pages and needs to navigate that Web site to understand the content of that page or to find more related information.

## Examples of Location

Links to help user determine their location in a site
  A research group is part of an educational department at a university. The group's home page links to the department home page and the university's home page.
A breadcrumb trail
  A portal Web site organizes topics into categories. As the user navigates through categories and subcategories, a breadcrumb trail shows the current location in the hierarchy of categories. Each page also contains a link to the portal home page.

## Resources for Location

- The Sound of the Accessible Title Tag Separator

## Techniques for Location

### Sufficient Techniques for Location

- Providing a breadcrumb trail
- Providing a Site Map
- Indicating current location within navigation bars
- Identifying a Web page's relationship to a larger collection of Web pages

### Additional Techniques (Advisory) for Location

### Failures for Location