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Re: Usefulness of "Opens in New window" Indicator for non-blindness

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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Feb 6, 2013 3:49PM

If there is going to be information alerting the user that a new
window is going to open, and especially if you're going to have a lot
of such links on a page (such as a page of resources), please please
try not to start each link with "opens in a new window." "New
window" is at least shorter.

If there are a handful in a row, that's not such a big deal, I think.


But imagine if I used a list of links and that's what I heard for
each link for 20 or 50, in a row? And imagine how many links would
start with first letter "O" (for "Opens") in the list?

In an ideal world, it'd be great to indicate this after the words of
the link text.

That's my two cents, anyway. My ears and brain thank you for
considering audio overload.

Best,
Jennifer