Hey everybody. Josh with Online ADA here.
In this video we’re gonna cover 2.4.5, multiple ways. This is a AA requirement.
Let’s get the description. 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.
Breaking this one down, all this really means, is that when you navigate to a sub page of a website, so if you have mysite.com and you look at the homepage, if you provide one of the following methods to get to other pages you’re in the clear.
If you provide a list of links, like a header with navigation bar, which pretty much, every web page that I visit has, that totally covers this one. But, alternatives to that would be providing a table of contents, which is really just a list of links. You can provide a sitemap. I have not used that one in practice, but there is information in the documentation if you want to go take a look at that at the WCAG documentation, W3.org. They have, its article G63. You can also provide a search function to help users find content. This is just something as simple as a search bar or search page, letting user type in the page they wanna go to and then providing a list of results. They can click on it that way. And linking to all of the pages on the site from the homepage.
So the only real way to fail this criteria is to provide a a scenario where you click on a link to get to a web page and then there’s nowhere else to go from there, or you can’t get to other web pages from there. So, in practice you would have to go to a page then go back to the homepage. Go to a new page. Go back page. That would be a crazy mess. And you just wanna have something like a header list of links, a navigation bar somewhere on your site, whether it’s in a collapsed menu, whether it’s on the left that comes in it comes out of the page, or maybe it’s there all the time.
You wanna provide something that gives the users a list of all the pages they can go to and whenever they click it, they go to a new page and it’s still there. That’s really all there is to this criteria. If you can provide that you’re providing multiple ways.
Thank you for joining me in this video and I’ll see you in the next one.