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;"
onkeypress="window.open(this.href); return false;">External link here</a>
this is detailed in the juicy studio article here
http://www.juicystudio.com/article/scripting-away-validation.php
hope that helps
jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: "tee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:13 PM
Subject: [WSG] another 'open new window' dilemma
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 was
willing to take many of my suggestions, except the NO 'open new window'
to external sites. Her argument is valid and justifiable, that she is
afraid her audience (marketing decision markers, art directors and IT
managers, ad firm account managers etc) will get lost if there isn't new
window open for external site. I tried to convince her that her audience
probably are more advanced internet users than most grandpa/grandmom
audience my other clients have. She doesn't buy it and I haven't give up
:)
Visited Accessify, sitepoint as well as WSG archives to look for perfect
solution; there seems none. It can also be quite a pain adding js code
just to make the link works.
My temporarily solution is to have the 'title="right click for new
window' in the <a href> tag, and also provides an open new window icon
next to the link text, however I am afraid this may actually creates
confusion to her audience. So I created another icon that indicates
'right click to open new window' - it seems a bit over kill.
I still think the 'title="right click for new window' is the best
approach, but I notice the indication takes more than 3 seconds to show.
Some people click faster than 3 seconds.
Can you tell the message I try to convey at the first glance of the icon?
Does it too fancy, too confusing?
please see the first two links.
http://clients.lotusseeds.com/news/june05_nikkeibussiness.html
thanks!
tee
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