[Sigia-l] Readability tool & "click on radiobutton"

Peter VanDijck pvandijck at lds.com
Tue Jun 24 15:20:00 EDT 2003


> >| How do you say "click on the radio button next to the
> >| name" to people who don't know what a radio button is?
> 
> You avoid specificity. Say something like: 'Select your name:' which is
> open-ended and is not determined to map-out a pre-defined existence for
> the user. It is better to allow the user to self-actualize (Rogerian
> psychotherapy --> http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers)

I used "select your name". The name that has the radio button next to it
is underlined and linked. ALL test subjects (10) clicked on the name and
then got lost.

(hopeful) Surely someone must have addressed these probs before and
solved them and written a handy online reference?

PeterV



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