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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Oct 3, 2013 4:54PM

How about a share-this plugin (or sample code) for WordPress, especially
one that lets you select the social media services you want and place icons
on the page, rather than a pop-up thingie?


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> When I looked into this, I also found the resources that are part of
> the Web Experience Toolkit. They looked like the best bet to me when
> I was focusing on this issue.
>
> In case this might be helpful, I found a discussion of the ShareThis
> widget, with a focus on Drupal. Maybe this could be used to stir up
> interest in fixing ShareThis, generally:
>
> https://drupal.org/node/1289054
>
>
> I think whether or not it's "easy" to build something like this all
> depends on the setting(s) in which one is working. In my experience,
> what's ideal is to contribute to fixing what the mainstream is
> already turning to; that's how we work toward actually making Web
> accessibility more than "one off" jobs, that only experts have had
> the time to figure out, in my view, anyway.
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
> > > >



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