- From: Lars Gunther <gunther@keryx.se>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:53:14 +0200
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
2009-10-21 15:11, Shelley Powers skrev: > If you go out and search on Google for "CSS link button" you get many > tutorials, examples, etc, that focus on styling links as buttons. If > you search on "JavaScript link button" you get many libraries that > support this functionality. And how many of those have ARIA roles? How many tutorials recommend the use of the button role on a-tags? So, what can a developer do with existing content? I have worked on a project that had a high profile in accessibility for the Swedish public sector, trying to obey all rules. But the previous devs had such a-tag-as-buttons. The code was so old that button used to be a problem. People that care and know enough to add an ARIA role would probably know and care enough to disregard the error (or warning) from the validator, if they do not have the time to rework the code to use proper button-tags. Switching a.button to real buttons probably won't take that much extra time, though. So while I do not agree - this time - with Steve and Shelley, I must emphasize that the wording on the error messages in the validator must strongly suggest using the button element, and really not be worded in any way that discourages the use of ARIA. -- Lars Gunther http://keryx.se/ http://twitter.com/itpastorn/ http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/
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