Is it ok to ‘grey out’ disabled buttons?

Accessibility, inactive buttons and WCAG.

H Locke

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two buttons, one grey to indicate “disabled” state with “cursor disabled” mouse hover state

DDisabled or inactive buttons are often “greyed out” — with white or grey text on a grey button. These can be used to communicate to the user that some kind of task needs to be completed by them before they can proceed, such as entering an email address in a text field prior to sign up.

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H Locke

UX person. I design things and I study humans. 150+ articles on Medium — https://medium.com/@h_locke/lists