- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:02:15 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
Hmm. I do it in emacs, which means that I have to explicitly look to remember what is there - keeping more than one thing running at a time is not visually viable (although I guess it would work if you didn't care what it looks lke - I remember when Jason and I would work together his speech synthesiser was always reading from the bottom of the page for another page, so we were permanentyl a page out of sync. It meant we had to concrentrate pretty hard to figure out what we were working on. (At Jason's working speech rate I mights we well be deaf...) If I get stuck in a window-opening frenzy I go behind the scenes and kill the process - I can't manage it visually. Having a lot of things open is a hassle for keeping up - it is probably a big hassle for people with cognitive disabilities. Hmmm. So I think I'm close to agreeing that the user needs to be able to say "no, don't open a new window. Does this mean "force the new window content into this window instead"? Or "forget it"? which is what happens in lynx when I am reading a page written by some clown who thinks javascript:popout_window('some_uri') is a URI. (Should we specify an answer to that question at all?) Charles McCN On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Al Gilman wrote: No. This leaves the user with too much garbage-collection liability. Telling is not enough; the system must recognize that it opens new processes under the user's permission and it is at the user's discretion how closely they wish to hold that permission-granting. Living with a littered desktop is easy in a GUI world. I do it in hardcopy all the time. It is not a condition that an eyes-free user can operate in; her environment has to be neater and more tightly controlled. The maximum degree of user control needs to be the base level and shortcuts added over that; not the other way around. Al
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