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Re: How to generate automatically accessible footnotesusing ARIA

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Nov 9, 2011 11:03AM

That is strange. It may have something to do with the ARIA mapping, since I
tested it using JAWS12-13 in FF and NVDA as well as IE. Since I'm blind
though I didn't test it without these. It uses role=link but has no keyboard
assignments. It's interesting to see which browsers support this
automatically.

Adding a keypress handler should fix this without a problem though. I'll
update this later tonight with the change. Thanks :)

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From: "Jared Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How to generate automatically accessible
footnotesusing ARIA


> Bryan-
>
> This is a very interesting approach. I can't get it to work with the
> keyboard in Firefox. Pressing Enter does not set focus to the
> footnote. I think these elements will probably need to be set as links
> or other scripting implemented to provide true keyboard accessibility.
>
> Jared
>