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Re: Form Submit or Button versus link (href) with action

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From: Terrill Bennett
Date: Nov 6, 2010 4:09PM

In numerous articles over many years, the Usability pundit Jackob
Nielsen has stated his first law as being "users spend most of their
time on other websites." In the article below, he says his second law
is "Users have several thousand times more experience with standard
GUI controls than with any individual new design."

Article: Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/application-mistakes.html

What you're telling visitors to your site is that "SOME of the links
on this site are actually buttons, and some of the links are... well,
links. Click the link. If you go to another page, it was indeed a
link. If you don't go to another page, it was in fact a button."

FYI: <button role="link"...>Submit</button> also works in NVDA. It is
possible to make things that look like buttons into links! But I digress.

Just a thought.

-- terrill --