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From: webmaster
Date: Thu, Nov 06 2003 1:52PM
Subject: re: META REFRESH (Was: RE: opening new browser windows?)
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What happens if the refresh is set to "0" and is used as a redirect? (not refreshing the page itself).
(Yes, I know server-side redirect is preferred)
>> <snip>
>> > This rule also applies to <meta http-equiv="refresh"> where this meta
>> tag
>> > will redirect a user to another page after so many seconds (0
>> > seconds to how
>> > ever many you specify).
>> </snip>
>> No, no, no, no, no... please no...
>> What...
>> happens...
>> if...
>> the user...
>> reads...
>> slower...
>> than...
>> <Refresh> (Oops...)
>> WCAG Priority 2 - 7.4 "Until user agents provide the ability to stop the
>> refresh, do not create periodically auto-refreshing pages." Currently I
>> am
>> unaware of any method to stop the "auto refresh" of the <meta http-equiv>
>> element, but as always am willing to learn (if such a method does
>> exist...)
>> JF
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>> John Foliot = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> Web Accessibility Specialist / Co-founder of WATS.ca
>> Web Accessibility Testing and Services
>> http://www.wats.ca 1.866.932.4878 (North America)
>> > Apparently, JAWS users will be informed that they
>> > have been presented with a new page and then it is gone and replaced by
>> > another. In this case, if, for example, the webpage the visitor is
>> looking
>> > for has been moved, provide a link instead so the user can choose
>> > to move on
>> > at their own request.
>> >
>> > Jules
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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Thu, Nov 06 2003 2:10PM
Subject: RE: META REFRESH (Was: RE: opening new browser windows?)
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> What happens if the refresh is set to "0" and is used as a
> redirect? (not refreshing the page itself).
> (Yes, I know server-side redirect is preferred)
>
Why would you want to do this? Increased bandwidth, inability to
"bookmark", inability to note change and take action... I cannot think of
one good reason why you would want to do this. Why on earth would you want
to wait for a blank page to load, so that the meta refresh would then kick
in to instantly take you to another page... As you said, server side
re-direct is the preferred method.
JF
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