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From: Alan Zaitchik
Date: May 13, 2016 6:24AM

I have been asked about the following wording that might be used on a web page:
As you navigate through the case study, click the green "Click to listen to audio" button in the top left of the screen to listen to the exchange between Dr. Greene and Kelsey.
There is only one button on the page with that label, and the mention of "green" and "top left of the screen" is to help the sighted user find the button, not to identify it in a list of multiple buttons.
Is it adequate to identify the button by its label even though additional, visual descriptions are included?
I realize that the button text doesn't include specifics - it doesn't say "Click to listen to the exchange between Dr. Greene and Kelsey" even though I understand that this would be more desirable, but we may not have control over the dynamic generation of the link text at this late point in the project, just over the text of the instructions on the page. So my question right now is focused on the text of the instructions.
Thanks for your advice.
A