- From: Access Systems <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:56:59 -0400 (EDT)
- To: David Dorward <david@us-lot.org>
- cc: Tom Gilder <w3c@tom.me.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, David Dorward wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:52:40 +0100, Tom Gilder wrote:
>
> > Some of the alt text on that site is also ridiculously long, a great
> > (or should that be awful?) example being:
and unbelievably redundant, almost couldn't find the new stuff on each
link
Bob
> >
> > "Logo indicating that this website achieves AAA accessibility
> > compliance - this graphic is an External Link to the W3C Web Content
> > Accessibility Guidelines that opens in a new browser window."
>
> Which may or may not be true. I'd love to see it try to open a new
> window in my copy of Mozilla (with JavaScript turned off and
> preferences configured to always open links in the same window -
> irrespective of target attributes).
>
> Website content shouldn't make assumptions about the users browsing
> environment.
>
>
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