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Re: identifying an accessible social media sharing widget

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From: jason@accessibleculture.org
Date: Jul 15, 2013 1:09PM

You might want to look at the share widget from the Web Experience Toolkit: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew/wiki/Share-widget

It's a basic sharing widget, and requires jQuery.

Working example on the page at http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/share/share-eng.html.

Jason Kiss
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http://www.accessibleculture.org




On 16/07/2013, at 4:30 AM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Greetings, WebAIM:
>
> I was looking at the Share This widget, on behalf of a client. It's
> not very accessible, at least based on the versions I've seen:
>
> http://www.sharethis.com/
>
> In my search, I ran across this thread, regarding an implementation
> of it as a Drupal module:
>
> https://drupal.org/node/1289054
>
> It was certainly disheartening to see someone from the company
> repeatedly indicate in here that the company had no plans to fix
> issues, despite the provision of specific recommendations.
>
> Has anyone found a more accessible version of something like this
> that they'd like to recommend?
>
> A Drupal module would be handy, but a basic sharing widget that can
> be deployed anywhere would also be useful to me.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
> > >