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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Mar 10, 2019 1:15PM

Patrick says:
> an unusual visual presentation. For communication purposes, it's either easiest to just refer to things as "controls" in general (which covers both), or...to just have a bit of understanding that button and link are likely to be used interchangeably by non-AT users. P
> — The only problem with this is that most screen readers do distinguish between buttons, links, and onClick controls. If you ask me to find the "transfer" button I will bring up a list of buttons and type "T" to hopefully jump to "transfer". Also, buttons are considered form elements and links are not.

Jonathan Cohn