- From: Will Pearson <will-pearson@tiscali.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:47:15 -0000
- To: <wai-xtech@w3.org>
T.V Raman wrote: "it might be useful to think of role:link as a specialized "button". Button is actually a "trigger" --- a thing that when activated executes an action. Links on the Web -- including html:a -- the beloved anchor element -- are in fact specialized triggers" I agree with the perspective that both buttons and links trigger something; however, I would argue that users maintain a semantic distinction between the two. Users often think of a link as moving to another page, hence the term link, whilst they think of a button as performing the action described by its label. If links were to b e semantically represented as buttons then I suspect that users would be very confused. Link text describes the linked to content and not an action, and users would likely be looking for an action. Whilst users could adapt their conceptual knowledge of a button over time semantically treating links as buttons would likely annoy users in the beginning. Therefore, I would think it sensible to preserve the semantic distinction between the two. Will
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