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Re: Is a button that does not support space bar activationa violation of WCAG?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 6, 2015 8:12PM

> Things I'd consider a fail would be using an ARIA role that implies spacebar, arrow key, or escape key behavior without actually implementing that behavior. Seems like a 4.1.2 failure, i.e. you are using the incorrect role for this element since the behavior does not match the standard native element.

Then you might also say if something looks like a button but is implemented with a link then it's also a failure. These are all good discussions -- but we would really need consensus and then corresponding WCAG failure techniques to assist the wider community in determining conformance.

Jonathan

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