[WG: Accessibility] Question about buttons

[Rich Caloggero]

Button tags are recognized by jaws just fine, even pre 10.0.
Anchor tags are in deed recognized as links causing jaws to announce them as 
such. Buttons are announced as buttons.

Hope this helps.
-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael S Elledge" <elledge at msu.edu>
To: "Eli Cochran" <eli at media.berkeley.edu>
Cc: <accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [WG: Accessibility] Question about buttons


> Hi Eli--
>
> Two thoughts:
>
> 1) I'm not sure pre-JAWS 10 screen readers will recognize the "button"
> tag and
> 2) "<a>" is described as a link by JAWS.
>
> I don't know if there is a method to override what JAWS says. Also don't
> know if this behavior is similar for NVDA or other non-JAWS readers.
>
> Mike
>
> Eli Cochran wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me whether there are any profound differences between
>> using a <a>, <input>, or <button> tag for button-y things for
>> accessibility?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eli
>> . . . . . . . . . . .  .
>>   .   .    .      .         .              .                     .
>>
>> Eli Cochran
>> user interaction developer
>> ETS, UC Berkeley
>>
>>
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