Re: [Lynx-dev] HTML BUTTON element

[David Woolley]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi all, i'm trying Lynx to test my web site for accessibity.
> It seems that Lynx ignores the <BUTTON> html tag, ie, it renders the button
> as [BUTTON], but it is not possible to click it.

Are you sure.  It used to work.  The real problems with button are:

- it is broken in some versions of IE (the reason I know it worke is 
that I first tested in in Lynx, even though it was targetted at an IE 
only demo page. It fails to send one of name or value in earlier 
versions of IE.

- there is no good provision for providing text only fallback content.

These problems basically mean that you should not use in in accessible 
pages.

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