I agree. My intention for opening links in new windows was for a very few links. Only the feature website of the month as a sample to vistors. Oh, and I will be giving the viewer the option to open the link in a new window or in the current window, so no suprises there.
Thanks for all the help! > You're right, Patrick, but life is a series of compromises. I spend a lot > of effort in getting users to my site, and I don't want to go sending them > away again with a link on my site. If they want to click on a link > external to my site, they get a new window so their existing window stays > in > my site. > > It's not accessible, that's true, but if they stay inside my site, no new > windows open. And I'm not going to go sending 97% of users out of my site > with a link, just so 3% can have an accessible access to that one or two > links. > > We're talking about a minority of links on the site that lead outside the > site, and a minority of users who are affected. So I think it's a fair > compromise, to make external links less accessible. > > One of the most important aspects of a site's success is getting traffic > and > keeping it in the site, and we ought not to lose sight of that in our > pursuit of accessibility. What use is a fully accessible site that gets > pulled down because it's a failure on economic or other grounds? > > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Patrick Griffiths > Sent: Sunday, 18 April 2004 7:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WSG] target="_blank" substitute > >> This is both an accessible and valid method: > > Valid yes, but accessible? > I click on a link. I look at the page. I try to click on the back > button. "What? Why doesn't this work? Oh. Because it's opened in a new > window". Close window. Return to the site (and page) I want to be on. > This whole malarkey makes the site less accessible for me, let alone for > a person who can't actually see what's going on. > > [snip] > > ---------------- > Patrick Griffiths (PTG) > http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/ > http://www.htmldog.com > > > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > > Darian Cabot -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Cabot Consultants Pty Ltd Software Engineer / Website Design http://www.cabotconsultants.com.au -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
