RE: No new browser windows... ever??

["Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

I make it a habit to include the phrase "... open a new window ..." in the
"Alt" text for links that spawn a new browser window. That would seem to
satisfy the directive you're referring to.

Mike

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-----------------------Original Message-----------------------
>From:  Jean Hollis Weber [mailto:jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com]
>To:  TECHWR-L [mailto:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]; HATT -at- yahoogroups -dot- com
[mailto:HATT -at- yahoogroups -dot- com]
>Date:  2/15/2002 12:01:00 AM
>Subject:  [HATT] Re: No new browser windows... ever??
>
>Tom Murrell came up with the best reason (for me) to *not* open new
browser 
>windows. I had completely forgotten about that item on the WAI list. As
one 
>of the goals for my websites is to meet accessibility standards as much as 
>I can, I now realise that my habit of opening a new browser window for 
>links to other sites (not for links within my own site) contradicts one of 
>my major goals, so I will stop doing that. At least it's easy to delete
all 
>the target="_blank" attributes from a website.
>
>Thanks, Tom!
>
>Regards, Jean
>Jean Hollis Weber
>mailto:jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com
>The Technical Editors' Eyrie  http://www.jeanweber.com/
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>
>
>Tom Murrell wrote (on TECHWR-L):
>>Jenise Cook wants to know if there's a good reason why you shouldn't open
new
>>browser windows (sort of).
>>
>>Check point 10.1 of the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) states:
>>"Until user agents allow users to turn off spawned windows, do not cause
>>pop-ups or other windows to appear and do not change the current window 
>>without
>>informing the user."
>>
>>Of course, a fair question is why. The explanation offered by WAI is
available
>>at this link:
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/wai-pageauth.html#tech-avoid-pop-ups.
>>
>>Of course, you can choose to use pop-ups or not, but if you're trying to 
>>follow
>>some standards, and if perhaps your company wants to make its content as
>>generally accessible as possible, this guideline might help understand
why.
>
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