Re: [Usability] Ellipsis on buttons


On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Shaun McCance wrote:

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:50 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Calum Benson wrote:

On 23 Mar 2006, at 09:26, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

How do I describe a button that only says '...' ?

You describe it as a bug which must be fixed.

Why isn't it just a combo box?

Eg, in the Keyboard prefs, Layouts tab.

Probably "Browse" or "Open" depending on the context. It would be
interesting to know what the accessible description of those buttons
are, as that's what will be read out by a screenreader. (If they
don't have a proper one, that's a bug.)

Buttons should be labelled.

(Rows of buttons with no labels might be better implemented as toolbars.)

Developers should be slapped for not properly labelling things.
(Reading documentation to find out what things do should be an option not
a necessity.)

There is no really no excuse, dialogs all need to be able to reflow and
resize with different font sizes and themes. Localisation needs to be
done anyway and there really isn't any point cutting corners by not
labelling buttons.

Oh, come now.

Ah the trouble with generalisations...

I hope you agree that in this context buttons labelled with only "..." is
not appropriate.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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