Relevant button

Impact: Strong to major

Users mainly impacted: Blind, visually impaired, physically impaired, mentally handicapped.

Explanation

The buttons, input type="submit", input type="reset" or button must have relevant texts that allow the user to understand the action of the button. They are essential especially for blind users so that they can be sure of the action they are taking. For example, terms such as “submit”, “ok”, “validate”… will not be relevant enough. On the other hand, relevant texts explain the action, for example: “Subscribe to the newsletter”, “Book my tickets online”.

To make the button texts relevant, you can either make the text contained in the value attribute explicit or add a title on the element to make it explicit.