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From: England, Kristina
Date: Dec 1, 2016 12:01PM

Thank you both! We've asked for the analytics on usage and are waiting to hear back on that data. Our of our editors had a follow up question that I forgot to ask in my original post which was whether or not folks saw a difference in accessibility behavior between the free versions of AddThis and ShareThis and the paid version (I'm assuming not, but we are using the free version and can't verify).

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Florence Lee
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 1:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Website Sharing Widgets

We were recently using AddThis and removed it since it had the same keyboard trap issue as the ShareThis widget. Haven't found a replacement for it and the usage of it wasn't very high.

Florence

On 12/1/16, 1:32 PM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Patrick H. Lauke" < <EMAIL REMOVED> on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

Possibly an aside, but: do you have stats that show the widget is
actually being used? Only reason I ask is that back in the day when I
managed a large university site, we added one of those widgets, and I
hooked it up to analytics...after about 6 months, it turned out that
only a dozen or so visitors actually used the widget...

P

On 01/12/2016 19:10, England, Kristina wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> We are just finishing up a redesign of one of our sites to align it with WCAG 2.0 guidelines. In testing, we found that the Share This widget is causing a keyboard trap. We looked into possibly switching to AddThis but found a 2015 forum post on WebAIM that the same issue was occurring with that widget. We currently use Drupal and were wondering if others have a suggestion for a sharing widget we can replace Share This with or if the AddThis issue has perhaps been resolved in the last year?
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> Thanks!
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> Kristina England | PMP
> Web Services |IT Strategy, Research, and Communications
> University Information Technology Services
> UMass Office of the President
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> https://www.umassp.edu/uits
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