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.
hi tee,
<a href="pagename.html" onclick="return !window.open(this.href,
'awindow', 'optionlist');">link text</a>
this is the code i added to open a new window. they told me, on this
list, that those who have js enabled get the new window and those who
don't get the link in the same window.
my thinking was that if a visitor went to the site without a new window
and got lost, hitting the back button could be a very frustrating
ordeal. the new window offers the opportunity to close the window when
one is finished exploring and be back "home" safe and sound.
here's my solution to the problem.
http://www.alforddesigngroup.com/sandbox/resources.html
hth,
dwain
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