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Improve Front of House Sitemaps #5170

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Testing for WCAG 2.4.5 Multiple Ways (#5150) identified several bugs in the sitemaps as well as readability concerns, such that they could not be relied upon for multiple ways compliance.

The sitemaps need to improve so that every page on the front of house is both findable and reachable by humans via the sitemaps. Each page must also link back to the sitemap on which it appears.

Requirements:

  • Every page must appear on a sitemap and only once on each sitemap.
  • Links on the sitemap should be contextual - and the same text should not be used for different destinations.
  • Each page that appears on a sitemap, must have a link to that sitemap
  • The structure of the sitemaps should be human navigable so that someone can find the page they want.

Problems identified during audit:

  • only the press footer links to sitemaps.
  • The H1 of each sitemap does not identify the level it is on, e.g. Press, Journal, Issue. Instead the name of hte press or journal is used, this creates confusion when press and journal have the same name, e.g. OLH.
  • articles are listed by issue, and each issue is separate sitemap, this means someone who wants to reach an article via the sitemaps has to know its issue. Consider a sitemap listing all articles with issues as headings.
  • The journal level appears to pick up some press level pages, but not others, such that for example, the OLHJ sitemap includes two "start submission" links, one to the Press and one to the journal submit\start pages.
  • there is no order to the static links - consider alphabetical ordering
  • the news items appear alongside other static pages, rather than with any heading identifying them as news items - consider these could be a sub-sitemap of the journal sitemap, so that all news items are together. Consider whether these may be best shown in date order.

From BRF:

  • News items should have their own sub site map for each press and journal
  • Footer link should take reader to sitemap the page appears on, issues to the journal sitemap
  • Ensure links are de-duplicated

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