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From: Ben Morrison
Date: Feb 20, 2004 8:46AM

On 20/2/04 3:31 pm, "Andrew Kirkpatrick" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Which rule are you talking about? Guideline 10.1 of the WCAG speaks to
> pop-up windows, but I don't believe this to part of 508.
>
> Similarly, pop-up windows from links don't violate it either. They are very
> avoidable, so you should, but not because of 508.
>
> Ex:
> <a href="foo.html"
> onclick="javascript:NewWindow('popup.html','popup',300,400,1);return
> false;">link text</a>

You should use the pop up address as the url - incase javascript is turned
off.

<a href="popup.html"
onclick="javascript:NewWindow('popup.html','popup',300,400,1);return
false;">link text</a>

ben



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