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From: Greg Jellin
Date: Feb 12, 2019 10:36AM

Thanks all for the help. Glen, I'd love to see that example if you have
the time and inclination.

Greg


On 2/12/2019 8:23 AM, Jim Allan wrote:
> Glen
> JavaScript would be appreciated!
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 10:05 AM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>
>> I was about to post this right before Jared responded. It's essentially
>> the same thing I said in
>> https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=8907#post13 (which I had
>> forgotten I said last year :-)). Thanks for the archive link, Jared.
>>
>> Here's a nice article on creating accessible footnotes,
>> https://www.sitepoint.com/accessible-footnotes-css/ .
>>
>> The footnote superscript links to the bottom of the page which has a list
>> of footnotes and each footnote itself has a return link to go back.
>>
>> I also have an example where one footnote is referenced by several places
>> on the page and I use some simple javascript to adjust the return link to
>> go back to the right place. I can post that if wanted. Just need to clean
>> it up an anonymize it.
>>
>> Glen
>> >> >> >> >>
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