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.