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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 10, 2019 5:28PM

On 10/03/2019 19:15, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
> 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.

Presumably though, once you can't find it in the list of buttons, you
then look for it in the list of links, or using a more general kind
search in general across the page? Similarly, there are many visual
designs that use "tab interfaces" that are really just links, and
similar "it looks a bit like this thing, but it's actually another
thing". You're going to get on very thin ice with "you should never do
this" type approaches.

P
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