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Re: Requesting for opinion on footer reference accessibility

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From: glen walker
Date: Jul 15, 2020 11:55AM

It's not strictly required by WCAG but it certainly would be helpful for
all users to have the footnote references as links where they occur in the
main body of the text.

Here's a good article on accessible footnote references:
https://www.sitepoint.com/accessible-footnotes-css/

As far as having multiple references to the same footnote, that's easy to
implement. I've done it before. In the event handler for the footnote
link, I queried the ID of the current reference and dynamically updated the
SRC attribute of the footnote itself so it would go back to the link it was
called from. Of course, the "back" button in the browser would work too.


On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:13 AM Mohith BP < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Scenario:
> One of the web pages I am currently working has a heading in the
> footer as References and all the references are listed out in an
> ordered (numbered) list.
> The proper reference numbers are referred throughout the main region
> with superscript.
> There is no functionality of clicking on the reference number and
> moving to the footer reference links.
>
> Query:
> 1. From accessibility point of view is it required to provide the
> functionality of clicking on the reference number to move to the
> footer reference link?
> 2. If yes, how to provide skip back to the content from footer
> reference section when the same reference number is used at multiple
> places in the main region?
>
> I feel this is not needed as the functionality is not present.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Mohith B. P.
> > > > >