Re: Footnotes in HTML5.1

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.

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Received on Thursday, 7 August 2014 20:19:30 UTC