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Multiple ways to find each page
There must be more than one way to find each page. For example browsing categories and search. (Unless the page is a step in a process).
There must be different ways for people to locate and navigate to each page – unless the page is a step in a process (like a checkout process for example).
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Requirements
- Ensure that each page can be found and navigated to in more than one ways.
- In addition to navigation menus, the website/app should contain a ‘Search’ functionality and/or a site map (for large websites), and/or an A-Z index of pages (for small websites).
Why?
Different people will have different preferences for how to navigate a website/app and find the content they’re looking for. For example:
- someone with a cognitive disability may prefer to browse categories to locate content;
- someone using magnification may prefer to use search instead of scrolling through a lengthy navigation block.
Official wording in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
2.4.5 Multiple Ways: More than one way is available to locate a Web page within a set of Web pages except where the Web Page is the result of, or a step in, a process. (Level AA)
See the W3C’s detailed explanation of this guideline with techniques and examples.
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