Make choosing random icon a button

[silverflight8]

Title:
Make choosing random icon a button

Area:
entries, commenting

Summary:
Convert text into a button instead, to avoid confusion.

Description:
To use the nifty "Use Random Icon" feature, you click the text "Use Random Icon". This is good, except that right next to the text is a button called "Quote". Inevitably my mind will think that the button refers to the text (that is, "Use Random Icon": [randomiconbutton]), instead of what it really is: two separate commands. I end up clicking the button, even though it says "Quote", simply because of this; oftentimes, the comment page is styled differently, and clues such as underlined-and-in-blue-colour text aren't present. I suggest we make both of them buttons, if possible, to reduce confusion.

I'm not sure about drawbacks, having no idea of comment coding. Text too long for a button? Interfering with the text in comment?

Poll #8668 Make choosing random icon a button

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Should be implemented as-is.
33 (52.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (4.8%)

(I have no opinion)
25 (39.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[deborah]

As a general rule, consistency of links/buttons -- when reasonable based on form design and such -- is an accessibility win. Almost everything else in this form is a button, so the more aspects which can reasonably be made buttons, the better.

I can see why "icon" is just a link; it's more or less a reference, and really doesn't have much to do with populating the form. But "choose random icon" kind of does.

[li_ttlewolf]

I'd really like this because it'd be consistent with the Firefox addon that randomizes userpics, but it would have to be a good icon whose purpose was obvious from the picture, and I'm not sure how you would do that.