- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:18:51 -0400
- To: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, Chaals from Yandex <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
This markup was available in HTML 4. I used it in a paper I wrote back around 1999/2000 while I was still at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). I have a copy of it at: http://rednote.net/Surpassing_Gutenberg.html It uses this syntax. Janina David MacDonald writes: > Today on the call regarding the Accessibility Task Force wish list for > HTML5.1 I suggested a footnote element. Janina mentioned that footnotes > work in Daisy players very well. I took an action item to lookup the syntax > in Daisy... I find the following 2013 post by Prashant Verma, a Daisy > trainer and member of the consortium: > > The footnote reference looks like this - <noteref idref="#footnote-0" > class="Footnote">0</noteref> > > And the footnote text is-<note id="footnote-0" class="Footnote">0 This is > the explanation of the highlighted term</note> > > In the above code "0" may be replaced with any other number. When replaced > by "1" it will look like this. > > <noteref idref="#footnote-0" class="Footnote">1</noteref> <note > id="footnote-0" class="Footnote">1 This is the explanation of the > highlighted term</note> > > Source: See the second post http://www.daisy.org/forums/18892 > > And the Daisy 3 standard says this about regions. > > REGION > > *region (CDATA, IMPLIED):* Specifies the region (defined in layout in > document head) in which the text will be presented. References the id of > the appropriate region. All types of text objects that are to appear in the > same rendering space would be assigned the same value for region. For > example ... notes (e.g., footnotes) might be displayed in a separate area > at the bottom of the screen (region="notes"). > > Chaals wondered if this could be explored as a wider use of longdesc, > Cynthia said Microsoft was working on moving some of the MS Word footnote > syntax into ARIA 1.1 (But that would report to the API, it wouldn't have > any jumping or opening behaviour) > > I think it would be great to have a working <noteref> and <note> elements > that opens (and/or jumps) to the footnote and returns the user back to > footnote. -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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