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Subject:Re: Check box or toggle switch? From:Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 1 Dec 2016 14:45:01 -0500
I like it! More concise than mine. I think I am in the habit of telling
people to "use X to do Y" so that there is no confusion about who is
supposed to perform the task. I think part of that habit is from taking old
docs and flipping passive language to something more active.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:
> Why not just "select the days when you are available"? A user too
> clueless to figure out on/off widgets would probably never reach the
> page anyway.
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > ... "Use the controls on the right to
> > select the days when you are available"
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