- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:55:01 +0200 (EET)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > Could someone advise me is it possible to change the default value for > a button of input type="file" in a <form> If the implementation of file input involves a button, then the text in the button is up to the user agent. > the default seems to be " browse" and that is not appropriate. The text in the button tends to vary according to the language of the user agent, i.e. the language used in its user interface like menus, help texts, and error messages. > it may be my code but i have tried value="find" without success Why do you think "find" would be an improvement? When I use, say, Opera (Finnish version), a file input element appears as as a box for a filename together with a button with the text "Valitse" on it. It may look odd on a page in English, for example, but that's what I'm accustomed to as a user of that browser. If you managed to change it to "find", it would look like a submit button to me. The important thing is the recognizability of a browse button as a browse button. When you first encounter one, you are probably puzzled. Later, you will remember what you learned, and expect a button with some specific text act as a way of browsing your computer's file system. File input elements - or, rather, their poor implementation in browsers - involves serious accessibility problems. Some of them are discussed at my http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html#acc -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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