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RE: MAILTO: element

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From: Birdsell John J
Date: Mar 11, 2002 9:50AM

I agree that the "mailto" code is an anticipated behavior and is not an
issue. The agency that I work at requires the contact us links on all pages,
and also has a large adaptive technology user population. I regularly get
feed back from them about the site and to date, no one has complained about
spawning of the email client.

jay
-----Original Message-----
From: John Foliot - bytown internet [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:36 AM
To: WebAIM forum
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 gro