elinks: Harmless Button

[Janina Sajka]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

If I follow this correctly, the button is the code that reads:

<script
src="https://seal.verisign.com/getseal?host_name=payments.verisign.com&size=M&use_flash=NO&use_transparent=NO"></script>

If I had to guess, I'd say this was a graphic intended to give you
confidence in the Book Share SSL Certificate. But, why that requires a
script, or to be wrapped in a div is beyond me. Might be worth a note to
Book Share only because they may have better access to Verisgn for
accessibility issues. I definitely think there are several accessibility
issues with both the form and this "button."

I don't think Book Share is authorized to just recode this, if it really
is what I think it is. On the other hand, we need the financial services
industry to get a better grip on accessibility, and our national
organizations haven't made much headway in this regard yet. I suspect
Book Share might get a at least a ripple of consciousness from Verisign
out of this. At the absolute least they should know that one of their
power users found the usage inaccessible--meaning that the bulk of their
users would be even more befuddled.

Steve Holmes writes:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:24:57PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Best way to answer this question is to examine the source code. With the
> > cat we would use the capital 'E' to expose the text of the anchor link
> > (<a [text]> </a>)
> > 
> > Can we do that with the chain? I must confess I don't know, even though
> > I also use elinks sometimes.
> > 
> Yes, I checked and normally the Capital E key will do likewise; since
> this is a button however, it doesn't work.  I will attach the relevant
> part of the actual HTML so you can see what I mean.  I will strip out
> the bulk of the rest of the form because it contains personal
> information and it would be quite large.  It is the last table in the
> form and I will include it now.  When the screen is showing, you have
> one button on the form and the text of it says "Return to Bookshare.org.
> So I think this particular form might actually come from Verisign.