Web pages should include breadcrumb links to facilitate navigation within the site.
- Breadcrumbs should be placed directly below the primary navigation bar.
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A page should include either a secondary navigation bar or breadcrumbs, but not both.
Both elements serve to orient users and facilitate navigation within the site.
- The list of breadcrumbs is displayed horizontally with each breadcrumb separated from its parent by a right angle bracket and spaces.
- Breadcrumbs reflect the site's page hierarchy sequentially from the root page of the site to the immediate parent of the current page.
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Within the breadcrumb list, a page title may be shortened by following two commonsense
rules.
The short version of the page title must be:
- understandable in context to have the same meaning as the full title
- used consistently across the site