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 the colours etc by changing the CSS, (style
switching) how about if the user gets a choice by selecting certain site
characteristics at start up? Has anyone tried this and taken it as far
as choice of how new windows open?
Just thinking aloud here . . .
Bob McClelland
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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 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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