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Re: Link labels and APA citations

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From: John Foliot
Date: Oct 21, 2014 10:28AM

Sundby, Valorie wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Thank you for the clear articulation on a topic I struggle to
> communicate with faculty when students with disabilities are unable to
> work with APA citations due to the limitations of their disability or
> AT. May I share your comments with faculty to help clarify the
> situation?

Please feel free to do so, with the caveat that this is my opinion, and not
Gospel :-) - clearly not everyone on this thread is in 100% agreement with
everything I have suggested.


>
> It is good to know that W3C has the open item and are working through
> it.

Well, I know that the W3C is working with the E-Pub folks to ensure that
"HTML5" and related technologies can address the needs of that authoring
group. Whether or not that will extend to specific style guides such as APA
will require that APA also involve themselves in the discussions. The W3C
does not "dictate" anything, but rather seeks to find consensus across all
affected user-groups, both authors and consumers.

Cheers!

JF