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Re: how to make use of asterisks accessible

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From: Angela French
Date: Nov 8, 2012 5:22PM

An asterisk is punctuation? I had no idea. I still see forms that use an asterisk to identify required fields on form elements.
I decided the block of content was poorly written and received permission to edit it.



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>hello:
> I and many screen reader users turn off punctuation so i have no idea ware
>you put the * so i would vote for the footnote
>
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>On 11/8/12, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a web page I'm building that uses some asterisks to supply
>> additional information. I'm wondering if I should move the
>> supplemental information to the bottom of the page and link to it like
>> one might do with footnotes, or is it understandable if it soon follows the
>use of the first asterisk?
>>
>> Here is my context (pasted from a Word document).
>>
>>
>> * PERS/TRS participants, or those with no retirement plan:
>> * $17,000 - If you are under age 50
>> * $22,500* - If you are age 50 or over
>> * State Board Retirement Plan participants:
>> * $17,000 - If you are under age 50
>> * $22,500* - If you are age 50 or over.
>> *The VIP maximum contribution amount shown above includes the Age 50
>> "Catch-up Contribution" of $5,500 as described in the "Catch-up
>> Contributions" section below.
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Angela French
>> Internet Specialist
>> State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
>> 360-704-4316
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>> http://www.checkoutacollege.com/
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>IST-Campus Technology Services
>University of California, Berkeley
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