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RE: MAILTO: element

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Mar 11, 2002 10:21AM

Agreed, however, it *DOES* pop up a new window... It is one of the vagaries
of the W3C's Guidelines

JF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rew [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: March 11, 2002 11:51 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: MAILTO: element
>
>
> I have used this mthod, mailto: in my pages, and I use pages with
> the mailto:
> technique. I do not feel this is an accessibility because the
> user's e-mail
> application that they use on a daily bases should already be accessible to
> them.
>
> Just for the record I'm using Outlook Express which is the
> default e-mail that
> pops up when I click on a "Send mail" link. I access it with Jaws 4.0.
>
> Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Foliot - bytown internet" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "WebAIM forum" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:35 AM
> Subject: MAILTO: element
>
>
> > Situation: WAI Priority 2 - 10.1 states: Until user agents
> allow users to
> > turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-ups or other windows
> to appear
> > and do not change the current window without informing the user.
> >
> > Question: Would not the <_a href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> "></a>
> code create
> > a pop-up window? In the major browsers it launches the associated email
> > client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messanger, etc.) in
> a seperate
> > "window". One could argue that this is "anticipated" behaviour
> and is not
> > an accessibility issue per-se, but I'm curious about this and
> would like to
> > poll the group.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > JF
> >
> >
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