- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:23:24 -0600
- To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, www-dom@w3.org
David, These are the types of things that can be a major problem to people with disabilities. The user agent accessibility guidelines has requirements to allow the user agent to control the automatic opening of windows. Jon At 10:56 AM 12/12/2001 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > 3. Someone with a cognitive disability does not want to have new windows > > opened when they load a web resource. By looking for "onLoad" events ... > >Would that be a way to prevent certain kinds of >"browser capture" by annoying advertisers? Stuff >like "disable the back button", "pop-unders", and >of course pop-ups ... it's not just disabled folk who >would rather rid the world of such monstrosities! > >Actually I'd rather see some root cause fixes for >that sort of thing, like standard security policies >disabling those behaviors. I'm skeptical about >such sanity becoming the norm, unfortunately. > >- Dave Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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