Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act in 1998 to include Section 508, which requires federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities.
• Priority 3: A Web developer may satisfy this checkpoint or it is possible that accessibility will be difficult.
If you wish to capture the mouse click in script and do an action based on some other conditions, you can either set the HREF attribute on the A element to "#" or, in Internet Explorer, you can set the returnValue property on the window.event object to "false" in the event handler.