{"id":1410,"date":"2020-11-23T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2020-11-09T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:30:45","slug":"should-links-open-in-new-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/2020\/11\/23\/should-links-open-in-new-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Should links open in new windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a word: no. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/WCAG20-TECHS\/G200.html\">stated by the WAI<\/a>, new links can be &#8220;&#8230;disorienting for people, especially people who have difficulty perceiving visual content&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As with anything else on the web, there&#8217;s always an exception, and you should definitely check out the link above to read about some specific scenarios where opening a new tab\/window can be appropriate. But those scenarios are rare. <a href=\"https:\/\/ux.stackexchange.com\/questions\/7909\/do-users-understand-the-browser-back-button\">People know how to use the back button<\/a>. Depend on that, rather than a new tab\/window.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a word: no. As stated by the WAI, new links can be &#8220;&#8230;disorienting for people, especially people who have difficulty perceiving visual content&#8221;. As with anything else on the web, there&#8217;s always an exception, and you should definitely check out the link above to read about some specific scenarios where opening a new tab\/window &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/2020\/11\/23\/should-links-open-in-new-windows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should links open in new windows?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[26],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-accessibility","tag-best-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}