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area should not open new window without warning.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
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This test is not required for conformance to the current WCAG2. It is provided for discussion and informational purposes only.
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target attribute on each area element.area element has a target attribute then check if the target attribute's value is one of _self, _top, or _parent.target attribute's value is not _self, _top, or _parent then check if the content text contains a warning letting the user know that the imagemap will open a new window.area element opens a new window then the content must contain a warning to the user.area element opens a new window.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
These test files contain examples of the accessibility problem detectable by this test. They may also contain more accessibility problems than the one described in this test. Please ignore any extraneous accessibility problems in these files.
area has target of new window.)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #68 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<map id="map1" name="map1">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,30,30" href="reference.html" alt="hello" target="new window"/>
</map></body>
</html>
area has target of "_self".)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #68 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<map id="map1" name="map1">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,30,30" href="reference.html" alt="reference section" target="_self"/>
</map></body>
</html>
area has target of "_top".)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #68 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<map id="map1" name="map1">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,30,30"
href="reference.html" alt="reference section" target="_top"/>
</map></body>
</html>
area has target of "_parent".)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #68 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<map id="map1" name="map1">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,30,30" href="reference.html" alt="reference section" target="_parent"/>
</map></body>
</html>