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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Mon, Jul 15 2013 10:30AM
Subject: identifying an accessible social media sharing widget
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Greetings, WebAIM:

I was looking at the Share This widget, on behalf of a client. It's
not very accessible, at least based on the versions I've seen:

http://www.sharethis.com/

In my search, I ran across this thread, regarding an implementation
of it as a Drupal module:

https://drupal.org/node/1289054

It was certainly disheartening to see someone from the company
repeatedly indicate in here that the company had no plans to fix
issues, despite the provision of specific recommendations.

Has anyone found a more accessible version of something like this
that they'd like to recommend?

A Drupal module would be handy, but a basic sharing widget that can
be deployed anywhere would also be useful to me.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Best,
Jennifer

From: jason@accessibleculture.org
Date: Mon, Jul 15 2013 1:09PM
Subject: Re: identifying an accessible social media sharing widget
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You might want to look at the share widget from the Web Experience Toolkit: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew/wiki/Share-widget

It's a basic sharing widget, and requires jQuery.

Working example on the page at http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/share/share-eng.html.

Jason Kiss
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http://www.accessibleculture.org




On 16/07/2013, at 4:30 AM, Jennifer Sutton < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Greetings, WebAIM:
>
> I was looking at the Share This widget, on behalf of a client. It's
> not very accessible, at least based on the versions I've seen:
>
> http://www.sharethis.com/
>
> In my search, I ran across this thread, regarding an implementation
> of it as a Drupal module:
>
> https://drupal.org/node/1289054
>
> It was certainly disheartening to see someone from the company
> repeatedly indicate in here that the company had no plans to fix
> issues, despite the provision of specific recommendations.
>
> Has anyone found a more accessible version of something like this
> that they'd like to recommend?
>
> A Drupal module would be handy, but a basic sharing widget that can
> be deployed anywhere would also be useful to me.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
> > >

From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Mon, Jul 15 2013 1:36PM
Subject: Re: identifying an accessible social media sharing widget
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Hi,
I just gave this a spin, and if I may make a few suggestions, it will work
better in JAWS if you do the following.

The attribute role=menu should be on the UL tag, not the surrounding Div,
which also includes textual content that won't be announced in Applications
mode. Also, aria-owns should be set on the UL so that it properly maps the
IDs of each A tag with role=menuitem, since these are not first level
children.

Also, a container element should be added to surround the UL tag, which
contains role=application. This will ensure that JAWS 14 enters Applications
Mode when the first menu item receives focus, as it should for an ARIA Menu
widget. Then the basic keystrokes apply, Up/Down to navigate in a circular
manner, then Tab/Escape to close and set focus back to the triggering
element. (Here, when Up arrow is pressed after the first menuitem receives
focus, an error is thrown in IE.)

Lastly, aria-haspopup=true should be added to the triggering element, which
will convey that a menu is attached, and help to enter the right mode when
it opens.

When role=button and aria-haspopup=true are set on the triggering element
for an ARIA Menu construct formed in this manner, it works correctly as far
back as JAWS11 in IE8.

Best wishes,
Bryan Garaventa





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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] identifying an accessible social media sharing widget


> You might want to look at the share widget from the Web Experience
> Toolkit: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew/wiki/Share-widget
>
> It's a basic sharing widget, and requires jQuery.
>
> Working example on the page at
> http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/share/share-eng.html.
>
> Jason Kiss
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> http://www.accessibleculture.org
>
>
>
>
> On 16/07/2013, at 4:30 AM, Jennifer Sutton < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>> Greetings, WebAIM:
>>
>> I was looking at the Share This widget, on behalf of a client. It's
>> not very accessible, at least based on the versions I've seen:
>>
>> http://www.sharethis.com/
>>
>> In my search, I ran across this thread, regarding an implementation
>> of it as a Drupal module:
>>
>> https://drupal.org/node/1289054
>>
>> It was certainly disheartening to see someone from the company
>> repeatedly indicate in here that the company had no plans to fix
>> issues, despite the provision of specific recommendations.
>>
>> Has anyone found a more accessible version of something like this
>> that they'd like to recommend?
>>
>> A Drupal module would be handy, but a basic sharing widget that can
>> be deployed anywhere would also be useful to me.
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jennifer
>>
>> >> >> >
> > >

From: John E Brandt
Date: Tue, Jul 16 2013 12:28PM
Subject: Re: identifying an accessible social media sharing widget
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I've been playing around with AddThis http://www.addthis.com/ which has at
least discussed the issue of accessibility. It is not perfect, but the main
buttons appear to work correctly with VoiceOver on the Mac.

I am using/testing this widget on a WordPress installation. There is an old
(and probably outdated) AddThis Drupal Module. See discussion here:
http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/questions/807187-addthis-and-drup
al

See conversation in their support forum:
http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/questions/119847-accessibility

~j

John E. Brandt
jebswebs: accessible and universal design,
development and consultation
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207-622-7937
Augusta, Maine, USA

@jebswebs

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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Jennifer Sutton
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 12:31 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] identifying an accessible social media sharing widget

Greetings, WebAIM:

I was looking at the Share This widget, on behalf of a client. It's not very
accessible, at least based on the versions I've seen:

http://www.sharethis.com/

In my search, I ran across this thread, regarding an implementation of it as
a Drupal module:

https://drupal.org/node/1289054

It was certainly disheartening to see someone from the company repeatedly
indicate in here that the company had no plans to fix issues, despite the
provision of specific recommendations.

Has anyone found a more accessible version of something like this that
they'd like to recommend?

A Drupal module would be handy, but a basic sharing widget that can be
deployed anywhere would also be useful to me.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Best,
Jennifer

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