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From: Steve Green
Date: Apr 16, 2021 10:22PM

My experience is the same as Patrick's. I am in an email forum where blind and visually impaired people provide technical help for each other, and they use the same words as anyone else, like "click" and "see".

When writing test reports and procedures, our policy is to use the word "operate" for links and buttons, "select" for radio buttons and comboboxes, and "check" for checkboxes. In the context of these types of documents, it's important to only use hardware specific terms like "click" and "tap" when you really mean to only use those input methods. "Operate" is more appropriate if any input method can be used. However, I think it's ok to be less pedantic in other types of document, especially those intended for non-technical users.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd