RE: Should WCAG2.1 provide requirements or guidance on buttons vs. links?

Ø  Failure of 2.1.1 due to using a link for a button without trapping spacebar to activate button

SC 2.1.1 does not require that all keystrokes work – but that there be a way to operate something.  If enter activates the link that looks like a button then IMO it would not fail the current SC 2.1.1.  We would certainly advise and recommend supporting the standard keystrokes and roles but failing this under the current WCAG seems to go beyond the requirements.

Jonathan

From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 4:25 PM
To: White, Jason J
Cc: WCAG
Subject: Re: Should WCAG2.1 provide requirements or guidance on buttons vs. links?

There are two possible failures under 1.3.1 and 2.1.1 that occur to me.

·         Failure of 4.1.2 due to using a link as a button, without a button role.
·         Failure of 2.1.1 due to using a link for a button without trapping spacebar to activate button

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 3:34 PM, White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org<mailto:jjwhite@ets.org>> wrote:


From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca<mailto:david100@sympatico.ca>]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 10:02 AM
Phil Jenkins has called us to provide greater clarity on the issue.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016JulSep/0038.html

[Jason] A clear proposal emerging from this would be to hold that “identified consistently” in sc 3.2.4 encompasses having the same role – both in the presentation and in what can be programmatically determined, as well as the same icon, label or other means of identification.
Are there other proposals arising from this discussion?

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