RE: Good accessibility practice for handling footnotes

Hi,
When I was developing the footnotes design pattern for Apex, I did a lot of experimentation with different combinations and finally settled on a combination of standard focus control plus ARIA to increase navigation options for AT users.
http://whatsock.com/Templates/Footnotes/Internal/index.htm

It has no accessibility issues that I can find.

Please let me know how this works for you.

All the best,
Bryan



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From: Louise Lister <Louise.Lister@iop.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 8:05 AM
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Subject: Good accessibility practice for handling footnotes

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Hello all,

I just wondered if there was an approved good practice for the use of accessible footnotes. We have some articles on our website that carry footnotes (currently numbered) that point to links further down the page.

Currently, a typical fragment looks a bit like this:
<p>Content in here<a href="#_ftn2" title="">[2]</a>.</p>

Then the footnote further down the page:
<div>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a> the content source web link</p>

Would using the aria-describedby attribute as detailed by this writer be the best way forward? See https://www.sitepoint.com/accessible-footnotes-css/


I am guessing this scenario would affect research and education websites like ours rather than being a more general requirement.

If anyone can advise that would be great and then I can look at making it so (Jean-Luc Picard style).

Thank you, and sorry about all my questions!

With kind regards,
Louise


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