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From: cb
Date: Wed, Feb 18 2015 10:58AM
Subject: Accessible social media sharing widget?
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Do any of you know of a social media sharing widget that is more
accessible than AddThis (https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing)? Their
widget causes a keyboard trap, so it's completely unusable.

Thanks

Caroline

From: Jordan Wilson
Date: Wed, Feb 18 2015 12:01PM
Subject: Re: Accessible social media sharing widget?
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I went through the same thing recently and we decided to roll our own.
I would recommend taking a look at this:

https://jonsuh.com/blog/social-share-links/


That article is not about accessibility at all, but you could use the
topic to create your own social share links that are compatible with the
respective APIs and then make them accessible yourself. That takes more
effort and skill that an out of the box solution, so it may or may not be
helpful.

Best of luck!



On 2/18/15, 12:58 PM, "cb" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

>Do any of you know of a social media sharing widget that is more
>accessible than AddThis (https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing)? Their
>widget causes a keyboard trap, so it's completely unusable.
>
>Thanks
>
>Caroline
>>>

From: Gijs Veyfeyken
Date: Thu, Feb 19 2015 3:06AM
Subject: Re: Accessible social media sharing widget?
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Hi,

Thanks for sharing this article.
https://jonsuh.com/blog/social-share-links/ <https://jonsuh.com/blog/social-share-links/>

The Web Experience Toolkit from the Canadian Government has a sharing plugin.
It's keyboard and screenreader friendly.
http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/share/share-en.html <http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/share/share-en.html>;

Github:
https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew <https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew>

Kind regards,

Gijs

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Gijs Veyfeyken
AnySurfer - towards an accessible internet
http://www.anysurfer.be/en <http://www.anysurfer.be/en>;
Brussels - Belgium