Breadcrumb Trails

To increase the usability of web sites, FlexCMP supports and automaticizes the generation of breadcrumb trails, as theorised by the accessibility guru, Jakob Nielsen. Breadcrumb trails are in essence a series of links which tell the navigator where they are in the site. Normally the breadcrumb begins with the words "You are in " or "You find yourself in" or "trail". Breadcrumb trails contribute to satisfying the principles of perception, comprehensibility, coherence and transparency of the site, as requested by the Methodology for the subjective verification of accessibility. The insertion of breadcrumb trails in a site immediately highlights eventual incoherence in the organisation of contents and therefore forces the authors of the site itself to create a project which is complete and consistent. Manually creating a breadcrumb trail is incredibly complicated and time consuming, especially when you have to reorganise content, as every modification means that you have to update the trail on numerous other pages. FlexCMP has automaticised breadcrumb trails and updates them automatically every time one or more pages are moved in the environment of the content organisation (map). Sites based on FlexCMP are completely customisable and so you can decide if and where to insert a breadcrumb trail, you can also decide the character of the space between one page and another, as well as the insertion or not of the last item in the trail (which corresponds with the current page you are on).