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Re: How to generate automatically accessible footnotesusing ARIA

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From: Kevin Chao
Date: Nov 10, 2011 8:15AM

Wow! Brian, this is excellent. The addition of pressing the ` key to
have the footnote automatically read without having focus
moved/changed is brilliant.
Firefox 11.0Pre (Nightly and NVDA 2012.1 Snapshot.

Kevin

On 11/9/11, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Got it. The oversight was a simple one, I blame programming at 2am :)
>
> So now you can tab through each footnote and press Enter or Spacebar to jump
> to and from each footnote, with or without a screen reader. I also updated
> the instructions to reflect this, and cursor:pointer is now included in the
> CSS to indicate that footnotes are clickable.
>
> Plus something extra, I added the ability for screen reader users to tab to
> a footnote and press the ` key (above the Tab key) to have the footnote text
> automatically announced without moving keyboard focus, which is nice if you
> don't want to jump around. You do need to tab to it first though.
>
> Modified:
> http://whatsock.com/modules/aria_footnote_generator_module/demo.htm
>
> Yay,
> Bryan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jared Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 7:12 AM
> 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
>>