Usability: Checking the box should have the positive meaning

MarcoR - November 19, 2007 - 23:10
Project:Profile Privacy
Version:5.x-1.x-dev
Component:User interface
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed
Description

As a general usability rule, checking a box should always have a positive meaning.
Instead of "Do not display birthday publicly", the checking should mean "Display birthday publicly" maybe describing the formfield "Uncheck to hide this field on your profile."

Another approach would be the radio solution I proposed here: http://drupal.org/node/156082
Keep the positive case the first option.

#1

quicksketch - September 5, 2008 - 23:12
Status:active» fixed

Thanks, I agree with this approach. I've committed a fix that will be in the 1.2 version that reverses the meaning of the checkboxes with the text "Display [field] publicly".

temp

Anonymous (not verified) - September 19, 2008 - 23:24

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

#2

Anonymous (not verified) - September 19, 2008 - 23:32
Status:fixed» closed

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

 
 

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