Proper ARIA handling of breadcrumb navigation

Question

What can be done to improve the accessibility of a breadcrumb menu similar to:

Answer 1

Going from using a screen reader and reading this blog post, the rel attributes won't make a difference to A.T. As for using aria-level, it works if you put it on the anchor tags. I'd also advise wrapping the list in a nav element, for semantic purposes and to save the need of putting a navigation role on the list when you don't need to.

I wound up with this markup for what I think is a not-too-bad breadcrumb. Hide the bullets using CSS (I didn't stop to do that I'm afraid) and I'd say its good.

  

    
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Hope this helps!