On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:50 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Calum Benson wrote: > > > > > On 23 Mar 2006, at 09:26, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > > > > > > > How do I describe a button that only says '...' ? > > > > You describe it as a bug which must be fixed. > > Why isn't it just a combo box? > > > > > Eg, in the Keyboard prefs, Layouts tab. > > > > > > Probably "Browse" or "Open" depending on the context. It would be > > > interesting to know what the accessible description of those buttons > > > are, as that's what will be read out by a screenreader. (If they > > > don't have a proper one, that's a bug.) > > > > Buttons should be labelled. (Rows of buttons with no labels might be better implemented as toolbars.) > > Developers should be slapped for not properly labelling things. > > (Reading documentation to find out what things do should be an option not > > a necessity.) > > > > There is no really no excuse, dialogs all need to be able to reflow and > > resize with different font sizes and themes. Localisation needs to be > > done anyway and there really isn't any point cutting corners by not > > labelling buttons. > > Oh, come now. Ah the trouble with generalisations... I hope you agree that in this context buttons labelled with only "..." is not appropriate. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
