RE: Check box or toggle switch?

["Wright, Lynne" <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- Kronos -dot- com>]

Maybe so... I'm sure toggle switch is a term that programmers are familiar with...  but maybe its not such an intuitive term from a user perspective. Maybe I'm being pedantic and overthinking it, but "key" typically implies an object on a keyboard -- not an on/off control that you click on-screen. 

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Subject: RE: Check box or toggle switch?

That's what the Microsoft Manual of Style says. Toggle keys. 

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Subject: Re: Check box or toggle switch?

> Our software recently got a face lift, and all of the check boxes are 
> now
toggle keys.

I'd call it a "switch", partly based on what Apple calls it: 
https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/ui-controls/switc
hes/.

-Monique 

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