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From: Glenda Watson Hyatt
Date: Mar 11, 2002 11:36AM

Great suggestion, Cath. I've always been unsure what to put as the mailto
text, ie name vs email address. Your rationale for email address makes
sense. Thanks.

Cheers,
Glenda
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kilcommons,Cath [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:44 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: RE: MAILTO: element
>
>
> Regarding the pop-up itself, I would think that folks would have
> learned that a linked email address will open up another window-
> can't say our web access committee ever considered alerting for mailto.
>
> We do try, however, to have our designers NOT assume that folks
> will be using an integrated mail program. I recently clicked a
> mailto link in the library AT room when testing out the new
> Dragon, and it launched Outlook express and would have sent out
> an email using someone else's account. It would not let me switch
> to my Web Outlook program.
>
> Our Web Access committee encourages that the text for you mailto
> contain the complete address for the user to send mail to. That
> way they can copy it into their Hotmail or whatever type of
> account they use.
> "For feedback regarding this site, contact us at <a
> href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> "
> class="flink"> <EMAIL REMOVED> </a>"
>
> Regards,
> Cath
>
>
> Cath Stager- Kilcommons
> Assistive Technology Support and
> Web Accessibility Coordinator
> Assistive Technology Resource Center
> <http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/ATRC>;
> Colorado State University
> 970-491-6258
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Foliot - bytown internet [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:21 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: RE: MAILTO: element
>
>
> 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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