Linden Kildare CISD - Check Registers

Linden Kildare CISD - Financial Audits

Linden Kildare CISD - Utilities Report

Linden Kildare CISD - Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balance

Linden Kildare CISD - Budgets

Linden Kildare CISD - Other Financial Openness Documents

Linden Kildare CISD - FIRST Reports

Linden Kildare CISD - Election Information

Linden Kildare CISD - Links

Linden Kildare CISD - Board of Trustees

Avoid opening links in a new tab or window. Where you must do this, include an explanation
in the text of the link.

## Why this matters

Opening links in a new tab or window breaks the back button and can be disorientating for 
novice web users, and the visually impaired. Generally you should avoid opening links in a
new tab or window, but if you have to, you should include text explaining that this will happen.

## How to fix

An explanation must be clear in the accessible text for the link. For example:

```html
<a href="products.html" target="_blank">
    Products (opens in new window)
</a>
```

Or, for an image inside a link:

```html
<a href="products.html" target="_blank">
    <img src="products.jpg" alt="Products (opens in new window)">
</a>
```

Rather than updating all of your links manually to do this, you can add a simple CSS
selector, such as:

```css
a[target="_blank"]:after {
    content: " (opens in new window)";
}
```

Note that doing this with an icon, is not sufficient to pass this check. The text must be
readable by screen readers.

Alternatively you can override the link text for accessible technologies (like screenreaders),
so that the appearance of the link does not change. For example:

```html
<a href="products.html" target="_blank" aria-label="Products (opens in new window)">
    Products
</a>
```

Note that if you do this, the `aria-label` will replace the text content of the link completely,
so it must still make sense in isolation.

## Terminology

Although it is common to say "opens in new window", almost all browsers now use tabs, and
so this terminology is potentially confusing. You may prefer: "opens in new tab".

## Methodology

1. Silktide considers all links on a page with a `target` attribute of `_blank`.
2. For each link, Silktide considers the screen-readable text of the link, which includes:
   * The text content of the link
   * Any `alt` text inside any images inside the link
   * Any `aria-label` or `aria-labelled-by` text
   * The `content` of the pseudo-elements `:before` and `:after`
3. This text is analysed for the presence of common text, including "opens new tab"
    and "opens new window". If the text is not found, the link fails the test.

## Further reading

Generally best practice is to avoid opening links in a new tab or window.  

The W3C provides detailed guidance on 
[when opening a link in a new window may be appropriate](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G200.html).

link-text-explains-open-in-new-window

November 2025

October 2025

Linden-kildare CISD

	Title / URL	Issues
	Linden Kildare CISD - Check Registerswww.lkcisd.net/39550_3	83
	Linden Kildare CISD - Financial Auditswww.lkcisd.net/39551_3	82
	Linden Kildare CISD - Utilities Reportwww.lkcisd.net/39558_3	81
	Linden Kildare CISD - Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balancewww.lkcisd.net/39557_3	81
	Linden Kildare CISD - Budgetswww.lkcisd.net/39549_3	79
	Linden Kildare CISD - Other Financial Openness Documentswww.lkcisd.net/39556_3	78
	Linden Kildare CISD - FIRST Reportswww.lkcisd.net/39552_3	78
	Linden Kildare CISD - Election Informationwww.lkcisd.net/39545_3	78
	Linden Kildare CISD - Linkswww.lkcisd.net/39555_3	74
	Linden Kildare CISD - Board of Trusteeswww.lkcisd.net/54882_2	70

Ensure links explain they open in a new tab

Linden-kildare CISD

Where this issue has occurred