Location
Silktide prompts you to verify that visitors can tell where they are within the site - typically through breadcrumbs, a highlighted current item in navigation, or a sitemap. This is success criterion 2.4.8 (level AAA).
This is a : whether those cues are present and useful depends on the site's structure. Silktide raises the prompt on each page and a person confirms it.
Why this matters
People with cognitive disabilities, and anyone navigating a large site with a screen reader, can lose track of where they are. A clear "you are here" signal - a breadcrumb trail, the current page marked in the nav, or a link to a sitemap - lets them re-orient without starting over from the home page.
What to check
Confirm that at least one of these is available and accurate:
- Breadcrumbs - a trail showing the path from the home page (or section root) to the current page.
- Highlighted navigation - the current page or section is visually and programmatically indicated in the main navigation.
- Sitemap - a page that lists the site's structure, linked from a consistent place (often the footer).
A single-page site or a tiny brochure site may not need any of these; use judgement. A multi-section site almost always does.
How to fix it
- Add a breadcrumb that reflects the information architecture (not just the URL path).
- Mark the current page in navigation with
aria-current=\"page\"(and a visible style). - Publish a sitemap and link to it consistently.
If users can tell where they are on this page within the site, the finding.
How Silktide tests this
Silktide cannot judge whether location cues are present and useful from markup alone, so this check raises one review prompt per page. No mainstream tool automates 2.4.8 - there is no W3C ACT rule for it.