Jermayn You might want to consider posting the question to the WA Online Services Interest Group http://www.dpc.wa.gov.au/psmd/osig/osig.html It is a very low traffic mailing list for WA public sector. A number of the people involved in the development of the guidelines are on that list.
The State Government Web Site Guidelines do not mention opening links or documents in new windows. If I remember correctly it was discussed by the working group on version 2 of the guidelines and because there where two quite different opposing views, it was left out of the guidelines. You need to check section 3.12 which covers content in pdf, word and other non HTML formats. You wrote:
I found a reference about html and pdf copies as pdf is not accessible (word is)
I would disagree. I believe the pdf and word issue dates back to 1999 or so, when you needed to upgrade to the latest and greatest of JAWS at considerable cost to fully access pdfs. Things have changed in 8 years. Now you can access pdfs with almost any screenreader (that is less than 8 years old) and a free version of acrobat. For word documents you also need software to open it and the most common, word costs. -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
