> James Crooke

> We have conducted usability testing on 100's of sites and my argument
> is that when you hover over a button and nothing happens, users
> sometimes think "oh the button is dead"

A counter argument to that:

So they'll get confused on every site that uses a button. You then change
it just on one site, which only reinforces their confusion "oh, on this site
it turns into a hand, so that means I can click it, but on these other
sites it's dead".

It's about consistency in browser behaviour/UI feedback (which, I'd argue,
is different from making design choices for the visual presentation of
information per se).

P
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Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
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Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
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