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Re: buttons work in IE but not in Firefox

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From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: Mar 6, 2012 7:42PM

Make sure that the button is focus able with the tab index attribute.
No button is going to click unless it's a true form element without
that. Since you can't show us the site, why don't you at least cut
and paste the small bit of HTML that we are discussing here? At the
absolute least we can eliminate some of the more obvious problems that
you might be having.

Another thing that you might want to make sure of is that when you are
'clicking' on the button that it is actually receiving focus in the
first place. If that is not the case, try tabbing onto the button
from above and give it another try. Finding out if there is a
discrepancy between these two behaviors may be important to tracking
down the solution you need.

One more thing - are you familiar with Firebug? Don't know what you
level of technical knowledge is, but we could potentially try some
other things before you put it back in development's lap. If they
don't know much more than anyone else about a11y issues, it might not
help as much as you would hope.

Well, I always like a good problem, so let me know how things are
going. If it turns out to be something really weird - then I REALLY
want to know, so don't forget me if that turns out to be the case.
I'll add it to my 'library'.

Ryan.



On 3/6/12, Will Grignon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Thanks for the recommendation, but the cursor just sits there on the button.
>
> I've alerted the site's developers...
>
> Thanks All.
>