- From: Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:57:22 +0200
- To: Lars Gunther <gunther@keryx.se>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- CC: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> That may look like a button but it still > *is* a link and should not have a button ARIA role. Don't style example below as Button. That's the very point. Button = Action (Navigation only context-bound, i.e. opening of a related window) Link = Navigation Given that, assigning role="button" to an <a> that does "pure" navigation is nonsense. It should be styled as link and should have a role of link. - Stefan -----Original Message----- From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Lars Gunther Sent: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 22:58 To: wai-xtech@w3.org Cc: Shelley Powers; HTMLWG WG; W3C WAI-XTECH Subject: Re: ARIA roles added to the a element should be conforming in HTML5. 2009-10-21 15:46, Tab Atkins Jr. skrev: > Sometimes making a link into a button seems to be the correct choice. > If I want the styling of a button, but I want clicking it to just > navigate you to another page, I can restyle an<a> to look like a > button That may look like a button but it still *is* a link and should not have a button ARIA role. -- Lars Gunther http://keryx.se/ http://twitter.com/itpastorn/ http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/
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