On 2/5/09 1:30 PM, "Carolyn Diaz" <carolyn.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know this is an old school type question, but we are very divided about > this. The people on our usability team are with Nielsen, but others (like me) > are not so sure. Isn't accessibility to new windows a problem as it changes > the focus? What do you think?
I think you're better off loading the PDF in the same window. If a user prefers to load PDFs in another window, it's likely that they want to load it into Adobe Reader rather than an IE wrapper of the Reader plugin. Users with that preference can use Reader's accessibility wizard to configure all PDFs to be opened in Reader. As far as accessibility is concerned, the big issue with opening new windows is actually with windows being opened involuntarily, e.g. popups. (Even then, it's only a Level AAA requirement in WCAG 2.) Using target on links is not a problem--anymore. And, what Lachlan said about marking PDF documents as PDFs. :) - m ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
