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Re: Directions about finding buttons and links on a page

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 13, 2016 6:30AM

This is perfectly adequate.

If the wording was "click the green button" you would be violating a
WCAG success criterion (as a party game, I leave it up to you to find
which one), and bloody useless to those who cannot identify the purest
green. But including a control by its name and visual characteristic
is a good and inclusive technique.



On 5/13/16, Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>
> > > > >


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