Re: SC failure for opening new window without prior notice ?

 I was thinking more that we were talking about a link that opens to a new
window... and if it should be considered a failure under 3.2.1 or 3.2.2...

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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Gregg,
>
> What would you say about when a link opens a scripted Overlay (that does
> not have a URL)?
>
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>
> Katie Haritos-Shea
>
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>
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> but people will never forget how you made them feel.......
>
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>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:44 PM, CAE-Vanderhe <gregg@raisingthefloor.org>
> wrote:
>
>> For background on this
>>
>> I was co-chair of the working group during the discussions of this topic
>> when the WCAG was created - and clicking on a link (in normal use of the
>> link to open or go to a new page) was not considered by the group to be
>> ‘changing a setting’.   This was specifically discussed.  A link IS a “user
>> interface component”, but clicking on it was not considered a change of
>> setting (in normal use of the link to open or go to a new page of content)
>> and the language of the SC was written to (try to) make this clear.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gregg
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The success criteria is predicated “on input” -- is pressing enter on a
>> link “input”?  In this context it seems like a navigation command and not
>> an input command.
>>
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>