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Re: MAILTO: element

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mar 11, 2002 2:04PM

At 11:35 AM -0500 3/11/02, John Foliot - bytown internet wrote:
>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.

Nope, it's not meant to apply to that. The author can't control the
mailto link and doesn't necessarily create a pop-up window. The action
of the link is entirely up to the user agent, and that's up to the
browser to work out, and can be configured as per the user's request.

Mailto links aren't an accessibility problem.

--Kynn

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