Creating Accessible Content Guideline 2.4: Navigable Content “Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are.” View on W3C What this means for content creators For editors, Guideline 2.4 primarily relates to giving content meaningful names and context. • Editors should use the provided title and heading styles to break up long passages of text. Not only will this allow sighted users to more quickly skim content for what they need, but it allows users of assistive technologies like screen reading software to aurally do the same by skipping from one heading to the next to find what they need. For instance, a page on University Admissions that clearly delineates information on financial aid from that about on-campus residential life by using provided text styling options for headings will be more usable for all prospective students. • When linking away from content by means of an in-line text link, the link’s purpose should be self- evident and give a user reasonable expectations of where it might take them. For instance, a user encountering the sentence, “The bus schedule is available online for your convenience,” may logically expect that clicking on “the bus schedule” would take them to a page where they can view information on when and where they can catch the bus. “The bus schedule is available online for your convenience” might take the user to the exact same schedule, but the text of the link itself is less indicative of its purpose.
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