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First time I've ever seen sidenotes done like that. BTW, screen reader users (i.e. blind people) can't possibly miss the sidenotes; in fact, each sidenote will
by mwcampbell 11y ago
First time I've ever seen sidenotes done like that.
BTW, screen reader users (i.e. blind people) can't possibly miss the sidenotes; in fact, each sidenote will interrupt the text at the point where the note is most relevant. So a screen reader will render the first sentence like this:
Did Clyde Frog
If I call NSA “Clyde Frog” long enough, eventually other people will too. Someone has to start the meme!
subvert crypto standards with a backdoored random number generator called Dual_EC?
A little jarring when first encountered. (In my case, because I have some usable vision, I could tell what was going on.) I'd suggest sticking with more conventional footnotes, but I can see why this form of sidenote was appealing.
- vitd 11y agoIt also happens if you use "Reader" mode in Safari. It was very strange, but I caught on once I looked at the article in regular mode and it wasn't there.
- dredmorbius 11y agoProper support for footnotes / sidenotes in HTML itself would be dandy. There's not, so people write hacks.I've done a few myself. Presently footnoting is either manual or requires a preprocessor -- LaTeX, Markdown, CMS, etc.
- TheCoelacanth 11y agoDo screen readers do any special handling of parentheticals? For a note that short, I wouldn't have been surprised if it were inserted inline in parentheses.