RE: Footnote discussions

Hi,
 
Great to see footnotes/ endnotes  is of interest to the HTML working group. From the HTML5 specs we have:
Details 
In printed documents, the type of tangential content that the aside element represents is sometimes formatted as a sidebar or annotation or footnote.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/aside.html
 
However,  there should be three separate elements and having the aside for asides and notes for footnotes and endnotes seems right. Of course there is work on annotations now that is also in play.
David Mcdonalds article sseems close. I would expect that following the EPUB 3 usage would be good, but elevating note to an element.
 
Best
George
 
 
 
 
 
From: ahby@aptest.com [mailto:ahby@aptest.com] On Behalf Of Shane McCarron
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 9:45 AM
To: Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken
Cc: public-digipub-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Footnote discussions
 
Not that I know of.  David MacDonald has done some early work and has a good article about it at http://davidmacd.com/blog/html51-footnotes.html
 
I think our goal in the A11Y Task Force right now is to gather requirements and even potential solutions, then get to the formal text for the HTML 5.1 recommendation (and potentially a push of a role or roles / states / properties into ARIA 1.1).
 
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken <tsiegman@wiley.com> wrote:
Hi Shane,
 
Is there a working definition of the footnote element? I think it would be helpful to have some preliminary discussion on the list about this. If there is not a definition, I think we might be able to help with it.
 
Thanks,
Tzviya
 
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From: ahby@aptest.com [mailto:ahby@aptest.com] On Behalf Of Shane McCarron
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 11:06 AM
To: public-digipub-ig@w3.org
Subject: Footnote discussions
 
The HTML Accessibility Task Force has asked me to try to get input from DPub on the introduction of a footnote element (presumably for HTML 5.1).  This would be in the context of things like requirements, default role, etc.  They are looking for this input in the next two weeks.  Is there a way we could schedule some time to discuss it?  If, as I assume, that this group has opinions.  

 
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Shane McCarron
Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.



 
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Shane McCarron
Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.