WAI Website Redesign/Footer

From Education & Outreach

On this page, I want to explore the possibilities to have a footer that addresses all our use cases.

Footer components

  • Status, including last updated date (might move up into the actual page content?)
  • Attribution
    • One or more Editors
    • (List of) Previous Editors
    • (List of) Significant contributors, as well as a general shout-out to involved TFes and WGs. (Let’s talk about what significant contributions are, and who decides. I think contributing significantly to a part of the resource, for example on GitHub.)
    • Funding sources
  • Footer Nav
    • I hope we don’t need this anymore when we are having the new layout & navigation
    • Feedback welcome email should go into a unified WAI_Website_Redesign/Feedback Box.
  • Copyright
    • W3C Copyright (Make sure dates are always up to date using PHP)
    • Creative Commons notice (I wonder if we can put everything under a permissive Creative Commons license (CC-by or even CC0)

Current Footer (example)

<div id="footer">
   <h2>Document Information</h2>
   <p>
      <strong>Status: </strong>Updated 21 February 2013 (First published November 2000)<br>
      Editors: <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Andrew/">Andrew Arch</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/">Shadi Abou-Zahra</a>. 
      Previous editor: <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/">Judy Brewer</a>. 
      Contributors: <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/shawn/">Shawn Henry</a>, Sharron Rush, Heather Hasner, Michael Stenitzer, 
            Jennifer Sutton, and participants of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2008/wai-age-tf.html">WAI-AGE Task Force</a> 
            and <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/">Education and Outreach Working Group</a>. 
      Developed as part of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/">WAI-AGE Project</a> (IST 035015) funded by the 
            European Commission under the 6th Framework.
   </p>
   <div class="footer-nav">
      <p>
            [<a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/sitemap.html">WAI Site Map</a>] 
            [<a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/sitehelp.html">Help with WAI Website</a>] 
            [<a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/search.php">Search</a>] [<a href="/WAI/contacts">Contacting WAI</a>]<br>
            Feedback welcome to <a href="mailto:wai-eo-editors@w3.org">wai-eo-editors@w3.org</a> (a publicly archived list) or
            <a href="mailto:wai@w3.org">wai@w3.org</a> (a WAI staff-only list).
      </p>
   </div>
   <div class="copyright">
      <p>
            <a rel="Copyright" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a> © 1994-2013 
            <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a><sup>®</sup> 
            (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr></a>, 
            <a href="http://www.ercim.org/"><abbr title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a>, 
            <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>), All Rights Reserved. <br>
            <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">
                  <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="float: left; border: 0; margin: 5px" 
                        src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png">
            </a> This work is published and licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">
            Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>.<br>
            <strong>For attribution requirements, see the 
                  <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/about/usingWAImaterial#cc">
                        "Creative Commons License (CC)" section of Using WAI Material
                  </a>.
            </strong>
      </p>
   </div>
</div>

Possible new HTML5 enabled footer (needs extra CSS)

This is the code that would be created by PHP depending on the data it gets:

<footer id="footer"> <!-- We would get rid of the id footer eventually. -->
   <h2>Document Information</h2>
   <dl>
      <dt>Status</dt>
         <dd>Updated 21 February 2013 (First published November 2000)</dd>
      <dt>Editors</dt>
         <dd>
            <ul>
               <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Andrew/">Andrew Arch</a></li>
               <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/">Shadi Abou-Zahra</a></li>
            </ul> 
         </dd>
      <dt>Previous Editor</dt>
         <dd>
            <ul>
               <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/">Judy Brewer</a></li>
            </ul> 
         </dd>
      <dt>Contributors</dt>
         <dd>
            <ul>
               <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/shawn/">Shawn Henry</a></li>
               <li>Sharron Rush</li>
               <li>Heather Hasner</li>
               <li>Michael Stenitzer</li>
               <li>Jennifer Sutton</li>
               <li class="tf"><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2008/wai-age-tf.html">WAI-AGE Task Force</a></li>
               <li class="group"><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/">Education and Outreach Working Group</a></li>
            </ul>
         </dd>
   </dl>
   <p>Developed as part of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/">WAI-AGE Project</a> (IST 035015) funded by the 
            European Commission under the 6th Framework.</p>
   <nav class="footer-nav" aria-label="Footer Navigation">
      <ul>
         <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/sitemap.html">WAI Site Map</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/sitehelp.html">Help with WAI Website</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/search.php">Search</a></li>
         <li><a href="/WAI/contacts">Contacting WAI</a></li>
      </ul>
      <p>Feedback welcome to <a href="mailto:wai-eo-editors@w3.org">wai-eo-editors@w3.org</a> (a publicly archived list) or
            <a href="mailto:wai@w3.org">wai@w3.org</a> (a WAI staff-only list).</p>
   </nav>
   <div class="copyright">
      <p>
         <a rel="Copyright" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a> © 1994-2013 
         <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a><sup>®</sup> 
         (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr></a>, 
         <a href="http://www.ercim.org/"><abbr title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a>, 
         <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>). All Rights Reserved.
      </p>
      <p>
         <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">
               <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="float: left; border: 0; margin: 5px" 
                     src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png">
         </a> This work is published and licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">
         Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>.<br>
         <strong>For attribution requirements, see the 
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/about/usingWAImaterial#cc">
                     "Creative Commons License (CC)" section of Using WAI Material
               </a>.
         </strong>
      </p>
   </div>
</footer>