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Accessibility for Developers and Designers: Pop-up Windows

Pop-up Windows

Pop-up windows are banned in Springshare products.  

  • closing the pop-up takes the keyboard back to the first link on the page (usually the skip link)
  • can be confusing for cognitive disabilities or computer newbies
  • older screen readers may not detect the pop-up
  • link must indicate that content opens in a new browser through text or an icon embedded in the link, and that is clunkier than we want to deal with right now