WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

RE: Section 508 / WAI Sidebar

for

From: Jukka Korpela
Date: Aug 7, 2002 11:08PM

Tim Luoma wrote:

> "Try _content instead of _blank to re-use the window rather
> than making a new window for each"

If that's the desired behavior, then using "content" (and not "_content") is
the way of doing it by the specifications. Instead of "content" you can use
some other name that begins with a letter. The name may have some
accessibility impact, since in some environments, users might navigate
between windows using their names, so an informative name is useful; but
maybe it could even be descriptive of the type of content that there is in
the window.

> However it occurred to me that _new does the same thing and
> IS part of the spec, so the page now uses _new

No, "_new" is not in the specification.

--
Jukka Korpela, senior adviser
TIEKE Finnish Information Society Development Centre
http://www.tieke.fi
Phone: +358 9 4763 0397 Fax: +358 9 4763 0399


----
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/