RE: Sentence vs. Title Capitalization

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

If you're willing to generalize from headings to list items, the NCI Web
Design & Usability Guidelines cites four studies to support the
following: "Capitalize the first letter of only the first word of a list
item, a list box item, check box labels, and radio button labels."

And for what it's worth, one of the NCI guide's general sources is:
Breland, K. & Breland, M.K. (1944). Legibility of newspaper headlines
printed in capitals and in lower case. Journal of Applied Psychology,
28, 117-120.

I wonder what Web browser they used in 1944...

-- Dan Goldstein

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:17 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Sentence vs. Title Capitalization
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> not looking for opinions (as informed as they may be), but 
> looking for citations/pointers/links to any studies done on this
issue: 
> Which is *more usable* for headings, titles of Web pages, and
subheads, 
> between
>   * Sentence capitalization (capitalizing only the first word of the 
> sentence)
>   * Title Capitalization (capitalizing the first letter of each word 
> (except for prepositions & non-initial articles)
> 

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