tee wrote:
Hi accessible care takers, I know open new window even for external
site is no good and have put it in practise for most sites I have
done, however I am kind of stuck on a site that has over 100 links
to external sites. My client, understands no accessible issues
however she
Hello Tee
I am currently working on a site with the nils org here who are
accessibility gurus and they have recommended that should i have to open a
new window i should use this code
a href=http://www.siteurl.com.au; title=Opens in a New Window
onclick=window.open(this.href); return false;
Hi Tee,
All I can say is that, as a sighted viewer, if I encountered a site with
100 links, each of which which opened in the same window, I'd be outa
there faster than you can say 'back button' :-)
I've been wondering of late if there is another way out of this: just
like we can change
Hi all,
This page (http://www.business.ecu.edu.au/users/sean/webdev/flobo.htm) has a
styled DL in a table. In IE the 2nd, 3rd, etc DDs for each DT slip left
under
the DT.
FF doesn't do this.
If I remove everything except the DL list styling it works
Hi Tee,
Why not say in the text of the page, opens in new browser window in
parentheses after the link? (If it's a pdf or other file type, state that here
as well, together with the file size.) The WCAG says you should warn people and
in *most* cases adding in the warning works well. A lot of
Vicki Berry
Why not say in the text of the page, opens in new browser
window in parentheses after the link?
I'd say not *after* the link, but *as part of* the link. If a user
is tabbing between links, they will not get to the text after
the link itself.
Sean SPALDING wrote:
This page (http://www.business.ecu.edu.au/users/sean/webdev/flobo.htm) has a
styled DL in a table. In IE the 2nd, 3rd, etc DDs for each DT slip left
under the DT.
Any suggestions?
Hi Sean
One suggestion would be to float the dd elements right and use their
width and
Patrick Lauke wrote:
I'd say not *after* the link, but *as part of* the link. If a user
is tabbing between links, they will not get to the text after
the link itself.
Good point, Patrick! Thanks.
Vicki. :-)
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Vicki Berry
DistinctiveWeb
Web: http://www.distinctiveweb.com.au
Blog:
tee wrote:
done, however I am kind of stuck on a site that has over 100 links
to external sites. My client, understands no accessible issues
however she was willing to take many of my suggestions, except the
NO 'open new window' to external sites. Her argument is valid and
justifiable, that
Hi All
I am finishing up an essay on opening pdf files in new windows, using
feedback from this list to justify the argument. Thiery has written a great
javascript to look for pdf attributes in links and add class, title, and
behavior to the link dynamically. I will let you know when I upload it
I agree with Peter, the float:left, float:right is the easiest way to handle
this situation.
Play around with the percentages to get the right amount of space between
the columns, but give yourself some slop factor to avoid any problems with
the two columns not fitting. You could also float the
At 01:39 AM 8/25/2005, designer wrote:
All I can say is that, as a sighted viewer, if I encountered a site with
100 links, each of which which opened in the same window, I'd be outa
there faster than you can say 'back button' :-)
I've been wondering of late if there is another way out of
I find it very confusing. The policy we use for our corporate website is to
open a new browser window for external links with target=top title=This
link will open in a new browser window.
Who says opening a new window is bad practice. Especially if it is an
outside link. I've been searching
Hi Janelle
Regardless of your window philosophy, I think using target=top is asking
for trouble. That is a common target for pages with frames. I would at least
suggest using a target name that is not part of the frame architecture. That
is why most people used target=_blank. There are better
Hi Paul,
You're right of course: I do that too. However, I really do think that
most folk don't know about right-clicking in the way you describe, so
it's not so much a case of choosing as knowing that you can.
I suppose one could always put that option clearly as a line of text,
viz: To
At 11:00 AM 8/25/2005, Janelle Clemens wrote:
Who says opening a new window is bad practice. Especially if it is an
outside link. I've been searching the web for information on this and
finding nothing. My understanding of web accessibility and 508 is to make
everything as clear a possible.
On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Drake, Ted C. wrote:
Regardless of your window philosophy, I think using target=top is
asking
for trouble. That is a common target for pages with frames. I would
at least
suggest using a target name that is not part of the frame
architecture. That
is why
Jackie Reid wrote:
a href=http://www.siteurl.com.au; title=Opens in a New Window
onclick=window.open(this.href); return false;
onkeypress=window.open(this.href); return false;External link
here/a
this is detailed in the juicy studio article here
Ben Curtis wrote:
1- link replaces current document (no target or js new window)
2- link always opens new window (target=_blank or js equivalent
with unnamed window, e.g., window.open(this.href,'',winOptions);)
I agree, the opener getting focus each time the user clicks on a link create
Does the reader not read the title tag which states Link will open in a new
browser window.?I thought that is why we use the title tag to give more
info on the link.
Thank you all for explaining the use of target=top.I will be
discussing this with my manager and hopefully we will start
Janelle Clemens wrote:
Does the reader not read the title tag which states Link will open in a new
browser window.?I thought that is why we use the title tag to give more
info on the link.
Not always. Depends on verbosity settings of screen readers, which in
many cases don't have that
On Aug 25, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
Ben Curtis wrote:
1- link replaces current document (no target or js new window)
2- link always opens new window (target=_blank or js equivalent
with unnamed window, e.g., window.open(this.href,'',winOptions);)
I agree, the opener
Being there are so many things to consider how do you code to compensate for
everything. Or which things do you focus on or ignore?Are there stats
on what readers or other usability devices are being used and by how many
people and what their limitations are and differences between them?
Just out of interest Stuart, do you feel that there is a contrast issue
in your article heading text? On my screens the bg grey is quite dark.
Cheers
James
Stuart Sherwood wrote:
Thanks John,
It took a while but the answer I was looking for came along. Thank
you! Your web site is very
If you are using em with font-size is there is a way to clear the font-size
of a box element (stop the inheritance)?I am having a hard time
explaining myself so maybe an example would be better.
So if you have this code, the More text would be 0.80em relation to the
0.90em.
div
Hi,
Maybe something like:
div#something *{
font-size: 0.9em;
}
On Aug 25, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Janelle Clemens wrote:
If you are using em with font-size is there is a way to clear the
font-size
of a box element (stop the inheritance)?I am having a hard time
explaining myself so maybe
I don't believe you can stop the inheritance. You should try using the
keywords which are relative to the users font-size setting. Xx-small
x-small small etc... Otherwise you might can try mixing and matching
percentages with ems? I have not tried it but maybe something like:
div style=font-size:
Title: Press Release - Party Politics Exclude the Disabled
Party Politics Exclude the Disabled
Political party websites discriminate against people with disabilities
26 August 2005 – A recent survey by W 3 A Limited of the accessibility of the big 6 political party home pages in NZ has
Lea de Groot wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:51:00 -0700, Janelle Clemens wrote:
If you are using em with font-size is there is a way to clear the font-size
of a box element (stop the inheritance)?
No, not really.
I normally get around this by only setting font-size in two places, as
Chris Kennon wrote:
div#something *{
font-size: 0.9em;
}
That's the quickest way of producing an ever decreasing cascade of font
sizes for every level of nesting you have within div#something...so not
really.
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Patrick H. Lauke
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Geoff Deering wrote:
I'm just wondering how people handle the IE text resizing problem, where
IE handles percentages much more accurately than em?
You can safely use ems as long as your highest font size is something
else, like %.
For instance, as long as you have something like
html {
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Geoff Deering wrote:
I'm just wondering how people handle the IE text resizing problem,
where IE handles percentages much more accurately than em?
You can safely use ems as long as your highest font size is
something else, like %.
For instance, as long as you have
Hi everyone, thank you for the feedback, I greatly appreciate. Sorry
for the slow response but I want to gather as many feedback as
possible, then absorb it, so that I can present a better approach for
my client.
Terrence, thanks for the suggestion. I am going to ask my client for
her
Hi Tee,
Sorry about the delay. I am behind on my emails. :-)
Should you decide to use Thierry's solution, there's a variant in
Sitepoint's new book you may like. It adds a checkbox so the
surfer can choose the behavior they want.
It is described in Chapter three as Creating Smarter Links.
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