Accessibility Considerations for Off-Site Navigation and Downloads

[Ana Isabel]

Accessibility Considerations for Off-Site Navigation and Downloads

"When a website links to content it does not own or control, it is easy for assistive technology users to miss that they’ve ended up on a different domain that likely has different accessibility, privacy, and security controls than the initial one. Even when a website owns the content, for example, a downloadable PDF, it remains important to inform the user what is going on to give them enough information to decide whether or not to proceed.

This article examines the accessibility risks introduced at these transition points and proposes a concrete pattern that I call a "speed bump modal” for sites that link to content beyond their own control.

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