RE: FW: Good accessibility practice for handling footnotes

Hi,

 

In our Transition to Accessible EPUB 3 working group (not a W3C working group, we are documenting support in browsers and EPUB reading systems. We plan to publish a set of suggested voiced values that enhance semantics. For example a h2 that is a chapter title could also say “chapter. 

 

Best

George

 

 

From: Peter Weil <peter.weil@wisc.edu> 
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Subject: Re: FW: Good accessibility practice for handling footnotes

 

Thanks Bryan and Matt.

Does anyone know why are these aria-roles are documented separately from the roles developers are probably more familiar with in https://w3c.github.io/aria/? If they are usable in the web context, it seems as though they deserve some mention in the latter (unless I’ve missed something).

Also, do these roles communicate any information directly to the user, or only to the assistive technologies users might be using?

 

Peter

 

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