Mastodawn

Dion Aug 21, 2025

#a11y folks, what's your take on this UI pattern that's quite common on social platforms:

A button with a verb label (e.g. "Follow") that, after the button was pressed, changes to an adjective describing the status (e.g. "Following"), rather than being explicit about the action it'll perform when pressed again (e.g. "Unfollow").

Do you find this problematic in practice?

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Lunar 🛸 ♾

@diondiondion I'm generally not keen when buttons tell me the state I'm currently in, so in this instance 'unfollow' would be more acceptable. As it is, it doesn't even definitively register as an active button (partly because it's greyed out, too).