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From: Patrick Dunphy
Date: Tue, Jan 11 2011 6:21PM
Subject: Accessibility view of AddThis widget
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As an able bodied person without any accessibility related impairments, I've
had no issues personally when using the tool. From an accessibility POV, I
can envision it posing issues for users of assistive technology & keyboards
for site interaction.

I'm curious to hear this community's thoughts on the AddThis social sharing
tool.

If you were building a site from scratch & wanted to include social tools
for sharing - would you use this solution?

Thanks!
-PD

From: William Lawrence
Date: Thu, Jan 13 2011 12:33PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility view of AddThis widget
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AddThis out of the box is neither accessible nor do they wish it to
be. If you want to use their services on your site, then you must
explore their API and pull from it according to the needs of your
site.

Cheers!
William


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Patrick Dunphy
< = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> As an able bodied person without any accessibility related impairments, I've
> had no issues personally when using the tool.   From an accessibility POV, I
> can envision it posing issues for users of assistive technology & keyboards
> for site interaction.
>
> I'm curious to hear this community's thoughts on the AddThis social sharing
> tool.
>
> If you were building a site from scratch & wanted to include social tools
> for sharing - would you use this solution?
>
> Thanks!
> -PD
>