Checkpoint 4.11 - Mobile-PDA

Many web designers create their own button styles to improve the visual appearance of a web page content. This is alright in an internet environment that targets desktop browsers, however, for the mobile device environment where bandwidth, download time, cost and screen size are limiting factors for the user, submit buttons should not be constructed from images.

Requirement

Images are not used for submit buttons

Recommendation

Use the native capability from HTML's <input> and <button> elements, and style them using CSS.

Checking Tool

View the page in a mobile device and verify that submit buttons are not images.

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-use-markup)