Daisy ACE fails with Popup Footnotes

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      Jim Swift
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      Many thanks to Marisa DeMegilo from the Daisy Consortium for her help in figuring this out.

      If you export to EPub3 with the Popup footnotes, then ACE by the Daisy Consortium will report a serious error for each end-note.

      The tag that is generated for the endnote does not contain the reference number as text and looks like this (partial)

      >> …footnote-003-backlink”> (
      To resolve the error, it is necessary to add the reference number to the link as text like this
      >> …footnote-003-backlink”>1
      or add an aria-label like this
      >> a href=“page_5.html” aria-label=“Page 5” (from a different document)

      It would be simple to use a Grep search to add the (internal) footnote index number as the text BUT, the internal footnote-xxx number is created in the opposite sequence to the order of footnotes on a page.
      See these references for the first 1 footnote references n a page.

      >> …footnote-003-backlink”>1
      >> …footnote-002-backlink”>2
      >> …footnote-001-backlink”>3
      >> …footnote-000-backlink”>4

      The internal footnote-xxx numbers ascend from bottom to top and the footnote reference numbers from top to bottom.
      This prevents the use of a grep search and replace to add the index number as Text to the >> a tag.

      So it was necessary to do this manually. For this book there were only 17 so it was doable, but I have a book to convert with 200-300 footnotes!!

      A bonus is that there is now a visible reference number on the ends-notes on epub reader that do not support popups. (ADE!! ) But the reference number now shows up twice in the Popup footnotes.

      Hope this helps someone else

      Jim

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