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Re: Use of hyperlinks instead of buttons

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From: Sean Murphy
Date: Jul 2, 2016 1:04AM

This is a good example where the standards can be used in different ways to pass or fail and item. Thus making it more complex then required for the tester or developer to know if they are passing or failing the accessibility requirements. My head hurts just working out if it passes or not. :-)
> On 30 Jun 2016, at 4:32 AM, Cousins, Earl < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi Bruno,
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> I would say 4.1.1 Parsing could be used, since the elements aren't being used according to the HTML spec.
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> Also, 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value as the expected names and roles (and states) would not be present.
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> https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20160317/H88
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> Earl Cousins | Web Accessibility Specialist
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