Find solution for referring to buttons/icons with difficult images

[daobrien]

Some modern GUIs use icons and buttons that cannot be easily described or recognised (cf Save and Open and similar) and neither do they have a tooltip or other help text.

Need to determine how to refer to these GUI objects to make them easily recognisable, to make future references easy, and that takes into account accessibility, screen readers, and similar.

Options include:

• A textual description of the icon or button, followed by an inline image on first use.
• Refer to the icon or button by what it does (what would ordinarily be Save or similar), followed by an inline image on first use.