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Re: Opening PDF, Word Documents or other sites like Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive in a new window ...

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From: Karen McCall
Date: Aug 15, 2023 1:01PM

Yes, it can now be controlled through the browser. Although this is a relatively new setting in the browsers. I think it's less than a year old. I have my browsers set to automatically download these types of documents as well.

Cheers, Karen.

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Opening PDF, Word Documents or other sites like Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive in a new window ...

Isn't that all controllable by the user? I went into the various browsers
that I use and set file types of PDF, DOC, and PPT to use the "download"
option rather than viewing in the browser.

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 12:54 PM Karen McCall < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> For PDFs, I want them to open in my preferred PDF viewer, not a browser. I
> have mor tools in a dedicated PDF viewer.
>
> I feel the same way about Word documents. I don't want them to open in
> Google Docs or Word on the Web, I want them to open in Word or give me the
> immediate opportunity to download them. Same with PowerPoint content.
>
> I have more accessibility tools in the source application or a PDF viewer
> than I have in the browser views of everything. I also find that sometimes
> the "download" option is hidden or not available in a consistent manner.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
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