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Desiree Renae @DesireeRenae@caneandable.social
2w
Interested in perspectives on links and buttons. In those instances where visually something is a button, but it is actually styled as a link, and vice versa. I am making an argument at work that if something looks like a button, it should have the role of a button, and the same with links. It seems to be a visual design choice, but if someone says to me to go to that link, I pull a links list just to be more efficient and it’s not there because it is actually a button, that causes barriers. Thoughts?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@DesireeRenae @RareBird15 Links and buttons actually mean something beyond visuals. Activating a link should not make any permanent change. Ie you should be able to go to a link multiple times safely, use your back and forward buttons, etc. A button makes a permanent change. Think buy now, submit, login, delete, etc. If you press it repeatedly bad things could happen, and just going back in your browser might not undo what happened. This is important not just for screen reader users. Antivirus software, for example, will sometimes click every link on a page when checking for threats. But it knows not to press buttons.
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Desiree Renae @DesireeRenae@caneandable.social
2w
@fastfinge @RareBird15 That is a very interesting thought I had not considered!!!
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