Making technology usable, managable, and creatable by everyone
Sometimes what would be best practice to improve accessibility in a pristine space is no longer best practice where standard practices in an existing endeavour mean that accessibility tools are less effective, or break, on what would have been the best practice.
In code, choosing spaces over tabs creates accessibility barriers. The developer ‘Holy Wars’ ignore this, so this article explains the issue.
With browsers having built-in “Open link in new tab” functionality, it doesn’t make sense to break a basic web idiom (the back button) on a whim. Auto-opening link in a new tab/window breaks the back button and is unnecessary (because users have the ability to make that choice for themselves).