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Re: Website Sharing Widgets

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From: Mallory
Date: Dec 6, 2016 4:17PM

sharingbuttons.io might also be an option. Lets those 2 out of a million
people who use these things still use them, but now you control all the
code and thus the accessibility.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016, at 09:27 AM, Gijs Veyfeyken wrote:
> 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
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