Inactive buttons, contrast and accessibility

• From: Ginger Claassen <ginger.claassen@gmx.de>
• Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:52:37 +0200
• To: "ML W3C, WAI" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <121b2ffc-42aa-4424-8ac4-0c60011da704@gmx.de>

Good Morning everybody,


We have a rather difficult issue in a web portal.

There is a login form and the question is now what to do about the
submit button if one of the fields user name or password has not been
filled.

Do we make the button inactive i.e. contrast does not meet WCAG and
remove it from tab-order or do we keep it in tab-order and provide a
tool tip why it is inactive and what to do about the contrast in the
latter case?

Sighted users would think the button is an interactive element if we
fulfill contrast requirements.


I am looking forward for some helpful input here!


Thanks and solong


     Ginger

Received on Wednesday, 24 April 2024 07:52:43 UTC