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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Aug 19, 2014 8:46AM

it's weird that there is not established best practice for opening
a javascript modal dialog box. Given how inaccessibly the majority of
them are coded, I would love to know before I click a link if it's going to
bring one of those up. From a usability point of view, they aren't
substantially different from a new tab (except that they are often coded
much worse).

Deborah

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Paul J. Adam wrote:

> Best practice is to warn all users, sighted and screen reader, to the presence of those new window links or file types links.
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> Simple way to do that is to use a graphical icon for new windows, external links, PDF, doc, xls, etc. so visual users know what it is before clicking on the link and provide a text alternative for those icons so screen reader uses get the same info.
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> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> www.deque.com
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> On Aug 19, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Lijewski, Lolly M (DHS) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> In my last post I asked about opening of windows, but in some browsers, tabs open. So the question is the same, what are the best practices when content opens in a new tab or window?
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>> Thanks,
>> Lolly
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