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From: Donna Jones
Date: Thu, Oct 03 2013 12:24PM
Subject: sharing social media
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hi everyone: i'm trying to find information about the accessibility of
"add this" and "share this" sites (they facilitate the sharing through
social media). looked on http://webaim.org/ and, perhaps didn't search
right, but couldn't find anything.
can anyone give me more information?
add this:
http://www.addthis.com/
share this:
http://www.sharethis.com/#sthash.m704r0EY.dpbs
many thanks and best wishes,
Donna Jones
From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Thu, Oct 03 2013 12:33PM
Subject: Re: sharing social media
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No I've never seen an accessible version of those social sharing widgets. You're going to have to create your own sharing buttons which is easy or use JavaScript to modify the accessibility properties of the sharing buttons after the page loads.
Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com
On Oct 3, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Donna Jones < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> hi everyone: i'm trying to find information about the accessibility of
> "add this" and "share this" sites (they facilitate the sharing through
> social media). looked on http://webaim.org/ and, perhaps didn't search
> right, but couldn't find anything.
>
> can anyone give me more information?
>
> add this:
> http://www.addthis.com/
>
> share this:
> http://www.sharethis.com/#sthash.m704r0EY.dpbs
>
> many thanks and best wishes,
> Donna Jones
> > >
From: Donna Jones
Date: Thu, Oct 03 2013 12:47PM
Subject: Re: sharing social media
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> No I've never seen an accessible version of those social sharing
> widgets. You're going to have to create your own sharing buttons which
> is easy or use JavaScript to modify the accessibility properties of he
> sharing buttons after the page loads.
>
> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> www.deque.com <http://www.deque.com>;
Thanks Paul, just looked at your site and see what you did. that does
look easy, maybe ....
and other thoughts from others ....
thanks again.
Donna
From: John Middleton
Date: Thu, Oct 03 2013 12:56PM
Subject: Re: sharing social media
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There is the *wet-boew <https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew> */Share
widget at: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew/wiki/Share-widget
Using an older version I had problems getting the email this to function
like I wanted and have not had time to revisit. However the social media
links qork quite nicely.
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On 10/3/13 1:33 PM, Paul J. Adam wrote:
> No I've never seen an accessible version of those social sharing widgets. You're going to have to create your own sharing buttons which is easy or use JavaScript to modify the accessibility properties of the sharing buttons after the page loads.
>
> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> www.deque.com
>
> On Oct 3, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Donna Jones < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>> hi everyone: i'm trying to find information about the accessibility of
>> "add this" and "share this" sites (they facilitate the sharing through
>> social media). looked on http://webaim.org/ and, perhaps didn't search
>> right, but couldn't find anything.
>>
>> can anyone give me more information?
>>
>> add this:
>> http://www.addthis.com/
>>
>> share this:
>> http://www.sharethis.com/#sthash.m704r0EY.dpbs
>>
>> many thanks and best wishes,
>> Donna Jones
>> >> >> > > >
From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Thu, Oct 03 2013 2:05PM
Subject: Re: sharing social media
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When I looked into this, I also found the resources that are part of
the Web Experience Toolkit. They looked like the best bet to me when
I was focusing on this issue.
In case this might be helpful, I found a discussion of the ShareThis
widget, with a focus on Drupal. Maybe this could be used to stir up
interest in fixing ShareThis, generally:
https://drupal.org/node/1289054
I think whether or not it's "easy" to build something like this all
depends on the setting(s) in which one is working. In my experience,
what's ideal is to contribute to fixing what the mainstream is
already turning to; that's how we work toward actually making Web
accessibility more than "one off" jobs, that only experts have had
the time to figure out, in my view, anyway.
Best,
Jennifer
From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Thu, Oct 03 2013 4:54PM
Subject: Re: sharing social media
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How about a share-this plugin (or sample code) for WordPress, especially
one that lets you select the social media services you want and place icons
on the page, rather than a pop-up thingie?
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Jennifer Sutton < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> When I looked into this, I also found the resources that are part of
> the Web Experience Toolkit. They looked like the best bet to me when
> I was focusing on this issue.
>
> In case this might be helpful, I found a discussion of the ShareThis
> widget, with a focus on Drupal. Maybe this could be used to stir up
> interest in fixing ShareThis, generally:
>
> https://drupal.org/node/1289054
>
>
> I think whether or not it's "easy" to build something like this all
> depends on the setting(s) in which one is working. In my experience,
> what's ideal is to contribute to fixing what the mainstream is
> already turning to; that's how we work toward actually making Web
> accessibility more than "one off" jobs, that only experts have had
> the time to figure out, in my view, anyway.
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
> > > >
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