Navigation and Breadcrumb titles need to be unique

  • Hi,
    I need to have my navigation and breadcrumb <a> titles unique from each other for my site to reach AAA validation.

    I can edit the title’s of the the <a>‘s in my navigation through the static code, but I need a way to have different titles for the links in the breadcrumbs – if it’s possible to add code or use a specific plugin that allows for this, I’m open to suggestions.

    At the moment I’m using dimox_breadcrumbs but I don’t mind changing if I have to.

    Cheers!

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  • Why?

    Link text only needs to be unique if the links point to different resources. You can (in theory) have as many identical link text on a page as you want providing they’re all pointing to the same resource.

    Thread Starter Dave J

    (@dave-j)

    Sorry I probably didn’t make it clear enough.

    Basically the navigation is being duplicated in the breadcrumbs, as in link text and destination. To get level AAA validation, if there are two links on the same page with the same link text and destination, they need to be differentiated by the title tag.

    They do? Where does that piece of info come from? It’s not part of WCAG 1.0 or 2.0 as far as I’m aware. In fact I’d argue that it’s risky to depend on the title attribute being rendered at all. Most experienced screen reader users use a non-verbose setting in their software to stop the title attribute from being rendered as, 9 times out of 10, it’s more “noise” than “signal”.

    Switch, VR and sighted keyboard users don’t have access to the title attribute at all, which means your link titles wouldn’t be Perceivable to these user groups – a primary WCAG 2.0 failure if you were relying on the title attribute in any way.

    So, personally, I’d take that info with a very big pinch of salt.

    If you want to use a real-life yardstick for AAA compliance, check out https://lflegal.com/ It’s one of only 2 officially recognised WCAG 2.0 AAA sites. And it uses WordPress.

    Personally, I don’t push for AAA – if only becaue of all of the documentation that must also be made available on the site. I’m quite happy with strong AA.

    Thread Starter Dave J

    (@dave-j)

    Ok thanks for the help and quick reply!

    Dave, I see you were creating a WCAG 2.0 AAA Conformance Standard WordPress theme? Can you supply the link to it? Are you sharing or selling the theme? i’d love to hear back. Cheers. Al.

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