RE: Select, choose, click style guide

["Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com>]

> All: I'd like to add this to the mix. While we generally follow the MS

> MoS when it comes to terminology, recording only exceptions in our

> company style guide. One exception is for check boxes. We "check" and

> "clear" check boxes, rather than "select" and "clear" them. -- Bear

 

 

Not a great choice, for the following reasons.

1.    "Check" is ambiguous. It has several possible meanings.

2.    "Check box" is an Americanism. "Select" means the same thing in
American, British and Australian English.

3.    Focusing on the control rather than the meaning of the action ("select
the xyz option") inhibits understanding.

-- 

Mike West

Melbourne, Australia

 

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