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Re: Forms - 1 label for 2 selects?
From: Joelle Tegwen
Date: Aug 6, 2004 7:50AM
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-----Original Message-----
From: tim.beadle [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
This must be one of the few times where usability and accessibility are
in conflict with eachother. If you read "Defensive Design for the Web"
by 37 Signals, they actually recommend using drop-downs for
date-selection, for the simple reason that it restricts what values can
be entered, and thus frustrates the user less.
Guideline 10:
"Provide sample entries, pull-downs and formatting hints to ensure clean
data".
-----Original Message-----
I disagree. I find dropdowns for dates very annoying. Especially if the value I want is at the bottom. It's *much faster for me to just type it in myself.
I would use the fieldset option for this problem as a previous poster suggested.
Joelle Tegwen
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