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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Mar 11, 2002 2:50PM

Hey Kynn,

As I suspected, but I threw it out for discussion anyway. A while back
there was a thread about some US govenmental weenie "insisting" on some
bizare interpretations of Section 508 stuff (acording to this guy even
layout tables HAD to have Summaries!), and here in Canada (as you know)
Priority 2 is now mandated for government web sites. The W3C Guidelines can
be vague some times (what _is_ flicker? - 508 is more precise here), and
thus open to equally bizarro interpretations. I was just checking to see if
anybody had encounterd this. I also ran it by Chuck Letourneau directly
(whom I believe you know, I do some stuff with him occaisonally), and he
mentioned that it had not come up for discussion during the initial drafting
of the WAI guidelines at the W3C. He concurs that it falls under the
"anticipated" behaviour heading.

I would argue one of your points however, in that the current crop of
*major* popular browsers (user agents) do not allow this type of
configuration... they automatically "pop up" a new window and the user has
but 2 choices, follow the link (and create the pop-up) or not to follow the
link (however they CAN copy and paste to another application...). In either
case however, "..user agents {DO NOT YET} allow users to turn off spawned
windows" in this instance, so it was a valid question no?

Anyway, just some mental chewing gum to think about and discuss.

Cheers!

JF



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