- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:36:30 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> > An example (an applet version) of what I'm concerned about can be found > at: http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/oldTechServ/ There is no javascript on that page (as viewed with Lynx). Javascript cannot be an applet. The common idiom for creating popups causes accessibility problems, but can be fixed by designing properly, i.e. write the page to work without scripting then add the scripting whilst keeping the old function. Specifically, never use javascript: URLs, except where client side scripting is of the essence of the page. Instead, use a normal link and override it with an onclick attribute. Make sure the onclick returns false to prevent the href also working on an JS enabled browser. Note the page is cache unfriendly (no last-modified-date) and uses a non-standard HTTP header (without an x- prefix) (window-target).
Received on Thursday, 14 December 2000 18:36:35 UTC