RE: "Type" vs. "Enter"

Subject: RE: "Type" vs. "Enter"
From: "Gayla Bassham" <gbassham -at- cypress-software -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:53:34 -0400


>BTW, I don't worry about how the information gets into the field.
>If the user is speaking the letters, they know that "type" means
>"speak."

Ah, but just yesterday I had a bunch of users who did not realize they
could paste their password into the password field instead of typing it.
Because, you see, the instructions said "type."

While we're on the subject, what do you say for checkboxes? Select?
Check? Click?

Gayla


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