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Re: Labelling a "fill in the blank" form field

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From: Clayton Silva
Date: Apr 27, 2018 3:18PM

Any thoughts on how to work with fill in the blank when HTML and question rewriting/reordering are not options?



I am specifically thinking about cases where the fill-in part is not necessarily meant to receive an answer, but rather where the whole question is an example and where the technology might be Word or PDF--like either an electronic version of a print publication or a public-facing draft of a print publication.



Some thoughts:



· using a pre-defined symbol placeholder

· using an inline/in-order image of a blank line with "fill in the blank" as alternative text

· using words in brackets like {blank} or {fill in the blank}.



All of these have drawbacks.



Clayton Silva