RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway"

Subject: RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway"
From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
To: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:05:29 -0500

Dan Goldstein asked:

> What's wrong with drop-down and expanding text? Did your users find it
> annoying or difficult to follow?


I think it was the sheer number of links in the text, on some pages -
every second word blue and underlined, or green and underlined. :-)

Kevin


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References:
RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway": From: McLauchlan, Kevin
RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway": From: Yves JEAUROND
Re: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway": From: doc
RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway": From: McLauchlan, Kevin
RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway": From: Dan Goldstein

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