{"id":2878,"date":"2015-03-25T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2015-03-25T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:37:05","slug":"button-text-web-access-tip-39-32515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Button Text, Web Access Tip #39, 3\/25\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Button Text<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buttons should have descriptive and succinct values or text that describe the function of that form button. Like &#8220;click here&#8221; links, ambiguous button text (such as &#8220;Go&#8221; or &#8220;Submit&#8221;) requires the user to scan before the button to determine precisely what the button does. Descriptive text such as &#8220;Search&#8221;, &#8220;Subscribe&#8221;, etc. are unambiguous and more accessible. If multiple buttons are present on a page, the button text should be different (e.g., &#8220;Search the web&#8221; versus &#8220;Search this site&#8221;).<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2878\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Button Text Buttons should have descriptive and succinct values or text that describe the function of that form button. Like &#8220;click here&#8221; links, ambiguous button text (such as &#8220;Go&#8221; or &#8220;Submit&#8221;) requires the user to scan before the button to determine precisely what the button does. Descriptive text such as &#8220;Search&#8221;, &#8220;Subscribe&#8221;, etc. are unambiguous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}