Re: Hand cursor does not change when hovering over unavailable menu items

On 07/11/2019 17:28, Rasor, Margaret wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I encountered a situation while I was using the mouse to first identify 
> all interactive elements in a UI before checking them with the keyboard.
> 
> When hovering over unavailable menu items using the mouse, the hand 
> cursor did not change and provide a sighted user with the visual cue 
> that the item was unavailable. The text for unavailable items was only 
> slightly lighter than the text for available menu items so the visual 
> cue from text was weak.
> 
> When hovering over available items, the hand cursor was still there, 
> plus there was color highlighting on the background of the available 
> menu items that gave the user a visual cue that the item was available.
> 
> However, when hovering over an unavailable button on the same page, the 
> cursor was a pointer instead of the hand icon, and when hovering over an 
> available button the hand cursor was visible.
> 
> My question is - shouldn't the cursor be considered a visual cue that is 
> required to have consistent behavior? I was thinking this was a failure 
> of 1.4.1. Use of Color, and also a failure of 1.3.1. Info & Relationships.

No, none of these issues are WCAG failures per se, I would say.

P
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Received on Friday, 8 November 2019 18:48:53 UTC