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Open A target attribute opened viewport only with user request

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UAAG 1.0 Requirement

Checkpoint 5.3 Manual viewport open only (Priority 2 )
Provision 1 : Allow configuration so that viewports only open on explicit user request.
Provision 2 : When configured per provision one of this checkpoint, instead of opening a viewport automatically, alert the user and allow the user to open it with an explicit request (e.g., by confirming a prompt or following a link generated by the user agent).
Provision 3 : Allow the user to close viewports.

Test 1 :

Procedure

  1. Activate "Test Link 1" on this page

Run test

Test Link 1

Expected results

  1. When "Test Link 1" is activated on this page, the viewport that opens due to the anchor target attribute content "_blank" does not open automatically.
  2. Instead of opening a viewport automatically, alert the user and allow the user to open it with an explicit request (e.g., by confirming a prompt or following a link generated by the user agent).
  3. The user should be able to close the separate vieport that is opened.

Source code

<p>
  <a href="../action/new-window-1.html" target="_blank" shape="rect">Test Link 1</a>
</p>

Test Script Code

References

  1. HTML 4.01 specification for A
  2. HTML 4.01 specification for TARGET

About this test suite

This test is part of a test suite for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 . This work is conducted by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group , which is part of W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) . Please send comments on this test to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org ( public archive ).

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Last modified: $Date: 2003/04/02 23:46:44 $ by $Author: jongund $

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