- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:57:16 -0400
- To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, "Michael (tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, david100@sympatico.ca, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:19:01 -0400 Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: [...] > 3.) Read footnotes where indicated in main text as they're > encountered. The difference between footnotes and endnotes is typically that footnotes are designed so that (sighted readers) can see at a quick glance whether to read them or not, whereas endnotes are printed at the end of a chapter or book, and you have to keep a separate bookmark and go there to look, losing context. There's move to use the CSS regions and flows mechanisms for footnotes, since the older draft with "float: footnotes", or "float: footnote", kind of works for a single level of footnotes but not for multiple levels, marginalia, etc, and the implementations are not entirely interoperable today). It might be that some experimentation, e.g. using "web components", is in order. The markup should probably provide a text reader the option to skip the content of bibliographic citations unless explicitly requested but to read out clarifications and other asides, for example, at the point of the footnote reference. -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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