[WG: Accessibility] Question about buttons

[Richwine, Brian L]

I've heard that there are bugs in IE6 and IE7 that cause return unexpected results from button elements used in submitted forms. If the button element is used in an HTML form, different browsers will submit different values. IE6 and IE7 will submit the text between the <button> and </button> tags, while other browsers will submit the content of the value attribute. There may have been some more subtle difference I've heard about too, but I'd have to dig through my notes.

-Brian

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From: accessibility-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:accessibility-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Phil Kragnes
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:03 PM
To: 'Rich Caloggero'; 'Michael S Elledge'; 'Eli Cochran'
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Subject: Re: [WG: Accessibility] Question about buttons

<input type="button"> and <input type="submit"> will work with screen
readers/keyboard navigation.  <input type="image"> does not allow keyboard
activation.  The same effect can be had with <input type="button"
src="image.gif">  This was part of the issue that lead to the law suit
against Target.com.

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[mailto:accessibility-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Rich
Caloggero
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:53 AM
To: Michael S Elledge; Eli Cochran
Cc: accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [WG: Accessibility] Question about buttons

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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