Hello all
I am interested to know whether the people on this list consider opening a
new window without alerting the user to be a failure to conform to Success
Criterion 3.2.2 of WCAG 2.0.
The success criterion is as follows:
3.2.2 On Input: Changing the setting of any user interface
Glen Wallis wrote:
I am interested to know whether the people on this list consider opening
a new window without alerting the user to be a failure to conform to
Success Criterion 3.2.2 of WCAG 2.0.
*3.2.2 On Input:* Changing the setting of any user interface component
does not automatically
hi glenda,
Changing the setting of any user interface component is changing some
state in the control that will persist when the user is no longer
interacting with it. So checking a checkbox or entering text into a
text field changes its setting, but activating a link or a button does
not.
No contradiction.
WCAG 2.0 Recommendation is the normative document.
Not all techniques can be used or would be effective in all situations.
Therefore, any particular TECHNIQUE is not REQUIRED for conformance.
That is to say, if you have some other technique that meets the WCAG
The Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator 1.0 (FAE) has been
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It's not just screen readers that have problems with new windows. Every user
group we have tested with has had problems.
Screen reader users sometimes do not notice that the screen reader has
announced the opening of a new window. Screen magnifier users frequently
cannot tell that a new window
I think this requirement is a little out dated, screen readers today
do a good job of telling people that a new window is open.
I think the main concern is window pollution, if links are opening a
lot of new windows it can be difficult for people with some types of
disabilities to be aware of and
Jon Gunderson
I think this requirement is a little out dated, screen readers today
do a good job of telling people that a new window is open.
But, as discussed, the requirement actually doesn't concern itself
directly with links popping up new windows, but more things like the
page all of a
I believe a best practice is for your web pages to use the same TARGET
attribute value so links from your page basically are updating the
same
new window and not creating a new window for every link followed
from your website.
Jon
I would have to disagree with that. If the user actually
michael.brocking...@bt.com wrote:
I would have to disagree with that. If the user actually _is_ aware that
they are about to open a new window, then does the same again somewhere
else on the page, or on another page, then they are going to be very
confused to discover that only one window has
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, michael.brocking...@bt.com wrote:
I believe a best practice is for your web pages to use the same TARGET
attribute value so links from your page basically are updating the
same
new window and not creating a new window for every link followed
from your website.
I
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