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accessibility and open standard icons

May 21, 2008 · 1 Comment

Everyone one likes to know what a link will do b4 u click it.

So we now have lovely icons (thanks to css) that tell us if a link is a pdf, jpg, mp3 or whatever.
I’m not completely convinced by it all as an accessibility thing, but i like tiny pixel drawings as much as the next person :)

We also have icons identifying an external link / resource,  but what i was looking for is a different ICON that says “I’m a local resource, but when you click me I happen to open in a new window”.  Got css, need icon.

The nice people on the brighton new media list sent me in the direction of this on latest7 

opens in a new window

and this less 2.0 version 

new window will open !

It would be nice to have a standard for these little icons.

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