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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Sep 5, 2012 11:59AM

2012-09-05 20:48, Corbett, James wrote:

> A matter of semantics here.

I don't see how this relates to semantics (study of meanings).

> If you have at the end of a transaction, the following: "Click to Agree",
> should it be as a link or as a button and if you are so inclined why?

This is a matter of user interface conventions and practices. I don't
see how there can be any serious doubt about this. Links are references
to resources. Buttons trigger actions.

But there are serious questions about "Click to Agree". Why would you
refer to one possible way of using a button, as opposite to using
keyboard actions for example, and why would you capitalize the verb
"agree" in the middle of a sentence? Properly reduced to "Agree", the
next question is whether this is sufficient enough. Does the context
make it absolutely clear, even to cognitively challenged people, what
one is about to agree on?

Yucca