Hi Alan,

I agree with you. Such popups I very accessible. But popups that are not
accessible are all those popup ads. You think you are opening a link to
information you are looking for and you get something else, like with
tripod.com sites.
The page you was realy interested in, is on the back side.
BTW: this is not only an accessibility issue. Also good sighted people
hate those pupups.

Regards Peter Verhoeven
Internet : http://www.magnifiers.org (The Screen Magnifiers Home Page)


Alan Cantor wrote:
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> I have a question about WCAG 1.0:
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> 10.1: Until user agents allow users to turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-up or other windows to appear and do not change the current window without informing the user.
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> What problems are there with operating-system produced pop-up windows? Let's say a user enters data onto a form on a web-based application. The use hits the submit button, the data is validated, and is found to contain an error. If javascript pops an error message, there will be accessibility problems. But if Windows draws a dialog box to report the error (with an appropriate title bar, message text, and standard pushbuttons) is this a problem? What techniques are more accessible than an accessible pop-up window?
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> Alan
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