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G65 requires not linking current link in breadcrumb; overly prescriptive? #4024

Closed yatil closed 3 months ago

yatil commented 3 months ago

Technique G65 seems to imply in its tests that it is essential to not link to the current page in a breadcrumb navigation to sufficiently meet SC 2.4.8 Location:

  1. For a breadcrumb trail that does include the current location:
    • Check that all elements except for the current location are implemented as links.
    • Check that the current location is not implemented as a link.

Considering that SC 2.4.8 only requires that …

Information about the user's location within a set of Web pages is available.

… I cannot see how including or excluding a link to the current page is relevant to passing or failing the SC.

If my assumption is correct, I think the page should be adjusted to remove the step from the testing procedure. Furthermore, I think with the introduction of aria-current="true", both including the link to the current page and leaving it off are equally good options.

patrickhlauke commented 3 months ago

Duplicate of https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/3948

Will be addressed once https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3951 is merged

yatil commented 3 months ago

Thanks @patrickhlauke! I was under the impression I had searched for an open issue, but apparently not :-)