[thelist] radio/checkbox usability

Martin Kuplens-Ewart martin at graphicist.com
Fri Jan 26 13:29:31 CST 2001


It could actually be very usable...

.... i wish they'd use it on those forms... you know the ones you fill
out if you wanna get your free subscription to Network Magazine, or
InteractiveWeek...  where you have five zillion radio buttons...

...seems to make it easier to pick the right one...
...thanks fer the code. :)

-martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "aardvark" <roselli at earthlink.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:54 PM
Subject: [thelist] radio/checkbox usability


> stumbled across this today:
> http://www.headhunter.lycos.com/JobPoster/Resumes/resfind.asp?t
> =1
>
> overall the page is pretty ugly and it doesn't do much for me... but
> one thing caught my eye that seemed really cool and potentially
> useful... scroll down to the checkboxes or radio buttons while using
> IE5/wintel or Opera 5 (N6 is acting up, so i can't test it there)...
>
> notice the hover?
>
> i'm trying to guage the usability impact of this (without
> implementing it and bringing in a focus group)... and here's where i
> am...
>
> - it only works on browsers that support <label> and CSS, so it
> won't confuse users that surf in NN3 (por ejemplo), and it will
> degrade well if you don't have CSS enabled somehow...
>
> - it doesn't work precisely like most radio buttons or checkboxes in
> my OS, since most of them don't have a color change on hover...
>
> - the cursor stays an arrow and does not become a hand, so it
> doesn't signal that it's a link in the standard sense...
>
> - the rollover color is different than the link color on the page...
i
> wonder if having them the same would be problematic...
>
> overall i think it can be very useful... any ideas?
>
> btw, the (corrected) code is:
>
> <input type="radio" name="DT" value="DT32*" id="DT2"><label
> for="DT2" onmouseover="this.style.color='blue'"
> onmouseout="this.style.color='black'">Up to 25%</label>





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