- From: P.H.Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:39:45 -0000
- To: "tom" <tcanywhere@yahoo.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> From: tom [mailto:tcanywhere@yahoo.com] [...] > Surely we can't be saying that re-directs are prohibited > altogether No we're not. What the guideline refers to are those "your download will commence in 5 seconds" or "you will be taken to this other site in 3 seconds". One of the reasons for this is that you should avoid automatically changing the context without the user being able to do anything about it, or at least being aware of it. If you imagine a scenario in which a user with a screenreader hits a meta-refresh page that redirects in a few seconds, the screenreader will start reading out the page, and before it even gets to the message about "you're being redirected", the page changes. Another consideration is that redirects should not break normal browsing functionality such as the back button. This is less likely when done server-side, though (as far as I can tell, anyway), but can be a real problem if it's client-side. ...and Tina beat me to it anyway, so bah ;) Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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