[tei-council] where to put bibliographic citations in the Guidelines

[Syd Bauman]

I'm not sure whether or not Martin's (nice) idea meets accessibility
criteria, either. But I think it leads us to a greater point than
footnotes. We should probably start thinking about how to get a web
accessibility appraisal of the Guidelines in HTML (at least). Do we
have any in-house expertise in this area? 

Just popping the TOC page through WAVE yields 4 errors and 577
alerts. 


> > Regarding the display of footnotes in the HTML version of the
> > Guidelines, Martin says:
> >
> > On 1/27/13 11:38 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> >
> > [. . .]
> >
> >> I've also been meaning to make those footnotes actually pop up
> >> next to the footnote number so you don't bounce down to the bottom
> >> of the page and bounce back. Does everyone think that would be a
> >> good idea? It would be like the footnotes on a page like this:
> >>
> >> <http://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/getDoc.htm?id=V465HB01.scx>
> >>
> >> (Scroll down till you see the grey button with "1" on it, and
> >> click it.)
> >
> > Do these meet accessibility guidelines?  I would prefer that any
> > solution we implement be fully accessible.
> 
> On that page, the footnotes are all listed at the bottom of the
> document. IIRC, what I do is to make a copy of the footnote node,
> strip its @id attribute (so that it doesn't end up with the same id
> as the original), and then show it in the popup. The original
> footnote is still there to view if you want to scroll down to it. I
> don't think there are any accessibility issues with this -- a screen
> reader, for instance, can read the whole page with footnotes
> included, and can also read the popup when it appears presumably --
> but I'm not an expert in accessibility.