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by Isofarro 4992 days ago
1.) Screenreaders have different modes of operation for different aspects of web content. For dealing with Forms they have Forms mode, in which only form elements are announced. A link isn't a form element, so they wont see the submit button.

2.) Screenreader users have a shortcut key to submit the form - typically when under-qualified web developers create forms without submit buttons. This fires the form submit event, which without a JavaScript preventDefault will get the form contents sent to the URL mentioned in the action attribute on the form. So the screen reader user's comment is treated as spam.