elinks: Harmless Button

[Steve Holmes]

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Yes, I'm almost sure it is.  I think what happens is Bookshare hands us
off to Verisign to process the order and at the end of the transaction,
This page comes up.  Instructions leading up to this said that we are
supposed to completely return to bookshare for the transaction to
process correctly.  Well, This page in its uneditted form confirms my
completed transaction and I did eventually get a confirmation e-mail
from Bookshare confirming this.

I did write support at bookshare telling them my concerns as there was
another hitch in the process that made me think I might have been double
charged but this final page had a "confirmation number" which I hadn't
seen at any other time so I'm probably out of the woods on that one.

You're right about the overkill of scripting just to provide a "return
to vendor" type link on a website.  I think the biggest problem with web
forms and accessibility is the lack of description or titles for
buttons.  How many times have you been to a site where the "confirm" or
"buy now"... buttons are never identified?  If you're luck, you can
sometimes gleam a more accurate meaning of the button's function by
parsing information from the button's URL.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:11:54PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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.

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