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Don't try to control visitors to you site.

There is nothing more irritating to a user than a site that appears to be trying to control them, either by forcing them down particular paths, of by disabling features of the browser interface. Here are a couple of examples of what I am talking about:

These techniques can decrease accessibility as they go against users expectations about how the web works. I expect to be able to click the back button in my browser to move back to the index page of a site, or leave a site altogether. Undermining such conventions can be particularly confusing for the 'non-visual' user, as they may not know that what they expected to happen, has not happened on this particular site.

Contributed by Jim Byrne
Updated Thursday 7 Aug 2003


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