Maintain a consistent presentation and layout across web pages on your website that follow the same way to navigate content.
Official Requirements
3.2.3 Consistent Navigation: Navigational mechanisms that are repeated on multiple Web pages within a set of web pages occur in the same relative order each time they are repeated unless a change is initiated by the user.
Why is it required?
Repeated content in multiple pages presented in the same order helps people with disabilities to navigate easily. The same order helps differently-abled people to understand how to navigate the page. Furthermore, it also helps in locating their desired content on the page. Consistent navigation is useful to users with cognitive limitations, low vision, intellectual disabilities, and also those who are blind.
How do we fix it?
- The navigation menus on each page should follow the same consistent order
- Website elements such as search box should be present in an identical location on all pages
Mistakes to avoid
- The main navigation block on each page is present in multiple pages, but its position is different on each page.
- Using breadcrumb navigation but not following the same format on all pages.
