question about radio and check boxes

[Deborah Swayne <dfs research att com>]

I'm getting a lot of helpful answers on this list, so I'll just
keep the questions coming.

I often find it difficult, with radio buttons and check boxes, to
tell which thing button is down and which is up.  (It's like losing
track of which hyperlinks I've explored and which ones I haven't
on web pages where people get creative with color.)

Has anyone else thought about that?  Are there style attributes
that I can use to make those states more obvious?  Possibilites
might include using stronger "down" colors, or drawing a true
check in a check box.

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