WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Footnotes

for

From: Greg Jellin
Date: Feb 12, 2019 8:24AM

Hello friends,

I'm testing a site that has content with footnote references. The
footnotes are presented as superscript at the end of sentences (like
they would in printed text) and at the bottom of the page there is a
list of footnotes. The footnotes are not hyperlinked.

I have 2 questions:

1) Is the a violation of any of the WCAG A/AA SCs? 1.3.1?

2) What are your thoughts for a more inclusive approach? My initial
thought is to link each footnote reference to the corresponding footnote
at the bottom of the page, and to add an aria-label within the link with
something like "footnote 1". I wonder if using aria-described by on the
link to associate the footnote to the link would be a good addition,
then AT users could hear the entire footnote without leaving the context
of the current paragraph.

Thanks!

Greg