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Re: Footnotes

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Aug 22, 2018 3:26PM

Thinking of this, I would definitely distracted if the footnote was in the
DOM right after the question. So how about this.

Place a button after the question with the caption "Footnote 1"
When the button is pressed, show a div that contains the footnote with a
close button

As a test taker, I would press the button and down-arrow to read the
footnote. Once I am done, I would hit Escape or press the Close button to
collapse it.

I think that would work better because the test taker is in charge of when
you hear the footnote.

Of course, you can hide the buttons using clipped CSS so sighted test takers
do not see them, but SR users can hear them. You do the same to the footnote
number, where the SR user does not hear it but the sighted user sees it.

I think this type of approach would work best.



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