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>Netgear Managed Switches (for Business)⁰ >⓪ - the switches are Netgear GS-108Tv3 are we not allowed to use any sane method of doing footnotes? Who does this?

• bmn__ 7y ago
  > are we not allowed to use any sane method of doing footnotes? There is no markup on HN for footnotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc > Who does this? Blame the people running the site, this is just a small inconvenience compared with other lack of features. > screw over anyone who uses a screen reader? As GP's footnote is plain text – not markup – there is no problem with screen readers (or any user-agent, really). Curious why you would think otherwise.
  • mdszy 7y ago
    Because it interrupts the flow completely when they could have just written the model number along inside of the already-used parens like a normal human being. With a screen reader, it'll get to the superscript 0, read that out, and then won't be able to read the actual footnote content until the very end. Can't jump around like our eyes can. "⓪" isn't even read by a screen reader (at least not narrator on windows 10). Footnotes in internet comments are useless and unnecessary anyway.