When presenting users with multiple submission options within a form, what order should they be presented in?
Again, the issue appears to arise with keyboard navigators - who, of course, include screenreader users.
All users prefer to have access to the most important information on a web page first. Screenreaders users are no different in this respect. Likewise, sighted keyboard navigators find multiple keypresses very tedious when trying to TAB to a critical link or form control.
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The decision to present back buttons within multi-page forms as links instead of a form controls may create a potential issue for screenreader users and a consistent use of forms controls appears to be the solution.
JAWS has a Links List feature and a Forms mode. Buttons, like all other form controls appear in the forms mode dialogue but not in the links list. It has been suggested that, when using a screen reader, the user will probably expect to find a form’s “Back” and “Continue” buttons in the forms mode dialogue.
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