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by gglnx 2177 days ago
Are sitemaps really dead? Still a good way to fulfill the WCAG requirement of providing multiple ways to locate a page [1].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G63.html

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Yes. “Site map” links in the footer of business or government sites are much less common than they used to be, and those that are still there are regularly just an auto-generated list of URLs or of links with their page names, which in most cases is atrocious. The idea of it was that it present structure, and be curated.

For most sites, I’d say the near-ubiquitous mega footer pattern has supplanted the site map.