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From: Mohith BP
Date: Thu, Sep 10 2020 5:23AM
Subject: Requesting for opinion on footer reference accessibility
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Thank you Birkir.
The examples are really helpfull.




On 7/25/20, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Also keep in mind that screen readers don't announce superscripts.
> I've seen a situation where a screen reader tells you you must be
> "under 183" (You must be under 18³), to use some service.
> I would say at minimum identify the thing as a footnote (maybe insert
> the word "footnote" via visually hidden span or CSS:content.
> Ideally make it a working link,, that is enough to indicate it is a
> footnote, add the word "footnote" for preference.
> Instead of linking to the footnote you could pop it up in a modal
> dialog when user clicks it, could work for many-to-one scenarios.
> Here are two oldy but still goody examples I, CB Averittt and a few
> others played around with some years ago
> One t one
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/footnotes.html
> Many to one:
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/footnotesManyToOne.html
> (if you shrink this one to a responsive view the reference changes to a
> modal".
>
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> On 7/20/20, Mohith BP < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>> Thank you Glen for clarifying and for the reference.
>> I marked as best practice (suggestion) to the client.
>>
>>
>> On 7/15/20, glen walker < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>>> 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 ADDRESS 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.
>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>
>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
>> >> >> >> >>
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