[thelist] PDF's: To New Window or Not To New Window. This isthyQuestion

russ russ at unrealisticexpectations.com
Thu Feb 16 11:16:32 CST 2006


I tend to inform users in something similar to the following:

<link>PDF Brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer, Opens in new window)</link> <Acrobat Image & Link>

JAWS or any other text reader should pick that up just fine.

-----Original message-----
From: "Pringle, Ron" RPringle at aurora-il.org
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:59:53 -0800
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] PDF's: To New Window or Not To New Window. This isthyQuestion

> 
> > One of the owners came down and asked a simple question. Why don't we
> > have the .pdf's open in the same window?
> 
> If the consensus is to open PDFs in new windows, I'm curious to know if
> and how one might go about informing visually impaired users that the
> link they are about to click on will open a new window and that it is a
> PDF document and not a web page?
> 
> Ron
> 
> 



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