Re: [Usability] Negating checkbox labels

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Dominique Würtz wrote:

> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:05:29 +0100
> From: "[ISO-8859-15] Dominique Würtz" <housirer gmx de>
> To: usability gnome org
> Subject: [Usability] Negating checkbox labels
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to point out a issue that annoyed me many times when using all
> kinds of preferences dialogs: often you have a bunch of checkboxes of
> which some have "affirming" labels ("make backup when saving") and some
> "negating" labels ("don't show splash screen on startup") (sorry, don't
> know if these are the correct english terms). This leads to confusion in
> my opinion and requires the user to read very carefully in order to
> avoid selecting the wrong check state.
> So I propose to introduce a guideline which says:

We already have such a guideline.

> "Avoid using negating labels for checkboxes."
>
> which would lead to ==> [X] Show splash screen on startup (and invert
> the default check state)

Hope that helps

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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