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Re: Using a definition list for footnote/asterisked items

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From: Chris Hoffman
Date: Nov 1, 2010 7:06AM

Hi Pete,

A DD in a definition list describes whatever is in its associated DT. What would the DTs contain in your case, and how would the DDs describe them?

You could make a tenuous argument that sources "describe" the quotations attributed to them, but that's IMHO a very square peg in a very round hole.

An OL would make a lot more sense.

Regards,

Chris



On Nov 1, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Pete Fairhurst < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> I've been thinking about how best you could markup footnotes in XHTML. I
> like the numbered anchor/jump-to approach, but I was thinking about how to
> make this more semantically richer over all.
>
> Would placing the footnote items into a definition list be useful?
> Specifically, I'm thinking of asterisked items as one site I work on
> regularly requires their press releases be published online verbatim, and
> these often include asterisked items within the main copy of the press
> release.
>
> What do you think? If I combined the numbered anchor/jump-to approach with
> ID'd definition terms, inside a definition list at the foot of the page,
> would that be more useful from an accessibility view.
>
> I appreciate that, in the instance of asterisks in particular, this may not
> be a very good use of semantics, but I'm interested to know other's thoughts
> on this.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Pete
>
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