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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 13, 2016 3:02PM

Oh my bad for not providing the correct URL, sorry bout that.


On 7/13/16, Marc Solomon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> And apologies for spelling your name wrong in my past post Birkir.
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 4:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] bibliographic citations
>
> Bikir,
> Thanks for your all of the great work you do. The URL you provided resulted
> in a page not found response. But, when I checked the parent directory, I
> found the following links that relate to footnote examples:
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/footnotesManyToOneMobileUsingRelative.html
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/footnotesManyToOneMobile.html
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/footnotesManyToOne.html
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/footnotes.html
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/footnotes-MP.html
> Best,
> Marc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf
> Of Birkir R. Gunnarsson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 4:28 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] bibliographic citations
>
> Sounds like you want accessible footnotes.
> We (me and my Deque colleagues CB Averitt and Melanie Phillip) were playing
> around with the most accessible way to code footnotes.
> YOu can see a demo here:
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/footnotesONeToOne.html
> The idea is to use the superscript and [], Wikipedia style, but make the
> references into links with a corresponding link in the footnote that takes
> the user back to the reference.
> The JavaScript on the page is necessary when multiple references are made to
> a single footnote.
> The JavaScript remembers where the last reference came from and sends the
> user back there.
> This is just an idea we are toying with but might give you an idea.
> There was a clever ARIA attribute devised for this scenario, aria-flowto,
> but it only works in Jaws with Firefox, nowhere else, so its use is
> extremely limited.
>
> <cite> is not announced by screen readers, unless you turn on special speech
> schemes in Jaws. I think NVDA and Voiceover do not offer suers a way to take
> advantage of these, though I am not 100% sure, and want to be wrong.
>
>
>
>
> On 7/11/16, Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Any help most appreciated.
>>
>> We are trying to make as accessible as possible an existing web site
>> that features bibliographic references formatted according to
>> Wikipedia style, with superscripted square brackets around a number.
>> The number links to an item in a bibliography at the end of the
>> article. (Hope that makes sense.)
>>
>> Is there a recommended "best practice" for handling citations to make
>> them as accessible as possible, both to users of screen readers as
>> well as to sighted but mobility restricted, keyboard-only users? I am
>> not sure there is any reason the Wikiperdia approach would worse than
>> other approaches; it seems to me the brackets and superscripting makes
>> it visually more clear to those with some sight that we have a citation,
>> but I ask nonetheless.
>> Related: what markup should be placed around the <a>? Is there an ARIA
>> landmark that should be used? Is there support for the HTLM4 <cite> tag?
>>
>> In short: what is the best strategy here?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Alan
>> >> >> archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>> >>
>
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