Re: Buttons styled as links and links styled as buttons

>"the visual
presentation doesn't convey the actual programmatic structure underneath")

in a lot of scenarios that makes better sense as a description of the
problem, if people are using buttons correctly, not as links etc. then the
markup structure is correctly matched to functionality, but if the design
then mandates those buttons look like not-buttons then it seems reasonable
to argue that it is the design that is wrong.

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 3:39 PM Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
wrote:

> A related thought: what about sites that have a top horizontal
> navigation made up of links, but visually styled like a tabbed
> interface. Do we argue that these fail 1.3.1 and 4.1.2 because they look
> like tabs but aren't exposed as tabs (with relevant ARIA roles etc)? Or
> do we fail under a "reverse 1.3.1" for not being visually styled
> correctly to properly convey their actual meaning/role (of course, there
> is no such thing as a "reverse 1.3.1", but I've come across odd
> arguments recently that essentially boil down to that..."the visual
> presentation doesn't convey the actual programmatic structure underneath")
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