Last modified: 2013-03-17 05:55:17 UTC
Created attachment 10737 [details] Empty link in footer section of web pages A empty link is present in the footer section of all pages next to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License link that is unrecognised with assistive technology tools such as JAWS and NVDA and hinders the flow of readability. The section of html that causes the problem is <a rel="license" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="display:none;"></a> Browser: FF12 Machine Specifications: Dell Laptop Mode: Studio 1555 Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 System Type: 64 bit Processor: Pentium (R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 2.1 GHz RAM: 4 GB Hard Drive: 500 GB
Still valid, but completely unrelated to AFTv5.
Isn't this a problem specific to the Vector skin?
No, this also happens when appending ?useskin=monobook to the URL.
This is a problem specific to English Wikipedia and whoever else copied the format of the footer at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright (e.g. Spanish Wikipedia also has this problem, Catalan Wikipedia hasn't). Reported at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Wikimedia-copyright#Bug_37516_-_Empty_Creative_Commons_license_link_.28.29_in_footer Resolving as INVALID here, only because this is not a MediaWiki software bug. The issue itself must be discussed and decided by the Wikipedia editors with permissions to edit that footer.
Copying an answer from that thread: eh it's display none... what the hell are those screenreaders doing looking at it... Can someone test if wrapping it in a span with display none would work ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 1:48 am, Today (UTC−7)
fwiw: "It makes CC content engines able to detect the CC license. Note the "rel=license" part. See also http://creativecommons.org/choose/ and all our image copyright templates which use similar constructs to enable engines to pick up CC licensed content. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:30 am, Yesterday (UTC−7)"
