Plan Your Navigational Tools

Plan how people will navigate within your activity. Every page should have a link to either the main menu page of the activity or a link to your school or class homepage. Your class homepage should have a link to your school's homepage and the school's homepage should include a link to the corporation's homepage.

If your activity contains more than one file, you need to plan how visitors will advance to the next page or return to the previous page.

If you are using a graphic as a navigational button, you should include a text alternative for navigating. Not all web browsers will recognize an image as a link to another file or webpage. Some people choose not to download any graphics when they are on the Internet. If you only had graphics for your navigational links, they would have a difficult time getting around within your activity. Within the description of the graphics or image tag, you should include a text alternative so that when images are not downloaded, a text description will appear.