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From: Jean Watkins
Date: Feb 16, 2002 9:34AM

This piece about the place-holding characters came up a little last week. If you include the place holders in a text field, the user then has to delete the default information out before placing their own information in to the field. This doesn't seem very helpful to me. In some cases, can I provide a value of " " or would that create a new problem? Doesn't the text preceding the field explain what is wanted in the field?

The guidelines also say that a radio button must be selected to satisfy this requirement. What if a user has to select either apples or oranges, but doesn't want either one? In some cases, I do not have a radio button selected because the user may not want anything in that c