The screenreader case seems like even more reason to have it be a
image/button with descriptive alt text rather than relying on what a
particular piece of screen reader software said an extended character
should represent, since we're using it for something different.



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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Matthew Flaschen
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On 11/13/2013 11:37 AM, Steven Walling wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Brion Vibber wrote:
>>
>>     I would strongly consider totally redoing how references are
>>     displayed to use a popup light box with citation cut n paste tools.
>>
>>     No caret or arrow needed for return in this situation... :)
>>
>>     -- brion
>>
>> Yeah having to scroll up and down the page at all is bad.
>>
>> For reference here ;) I think enwiki has solved this problem partially
>> with Yair Rand's Reference Tooltips.
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reference_Tooltips
>> <http://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reference_Tooltips>
>>
>
> Popups also has this.  I like the idea of putting something like this in
> the Cite extension (where the referencing functionality lives), either
> immediately or as a Beta feature.
>
> However, it's critical that we don't make accessibility worse.  Some
> screen readers support JavaScript and CSS, but not all, and we need to make
> sure everyone can still read our references.
>
> As Nick said, testing with the print stylesheets is also important.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
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