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From: Gijs Veyfeyken
Date: Dec 2, 2016 1:27AM


There's an accessible share widget in the Web Experience Toolkit, a collaborative open source project led by the Government of Canada:
http://wet-boew.github.io/v4.0-ci/docs/ref/share/share-en.html <http://wet-boew.github.io/v4.0-ci/docs/ref/share/share-en.html>;

Share This and Add This know about their accessibility problems for years but never acted on them (I've asked).
There's also the privacy issue, these buttons enable a lot of tracking.
And thirdly, like Patrick said, do people use it? It's clutter in my opinion.

Kind regards,

Gijs

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Gijs Veyfeyken
AnySurfer - towards an accessible internet
http://www.anysurfer.be/en <http://www.anysurfer.be/en>;
Brussels - Belgium