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Re: Meaningful Sequences for "Back" and "Continue"onWizards

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Dec 17, 2014 6:31AM

> Luke found that people trying to complete a form were far more successful when he stacked the buttons at the bottom left of the page, with the primary action first.

I agree that stacking the buttons would be best so the reading order matches the visual order, however, I'm personally drawn to the bottom right rather than the bottom left because I've been trained that way over time with the paradigms that are used in Windows. Also, as I'm scanning the form reviewing it the buttons at the bottom right are immediately after the last part of the form that I scanned so it seems more natural to me -- but I'm sure others have differing opinions.

> but with CSS there's no reason it can't be a native button and look like a plain old link.)

Speech users may voice commands such as "click link" or "click button", thus, I would think the visual appearance of an interactive element should match the semantics to ensure access by the widest group of people.

Jonathan