On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:59 -0500, Stéphane Maniaci wrote: >> > "X" and "Y" make me think, "Horizontal" and "Vertical" much less so. You >> > can avoid repetition by changing "Position" to "Offset". >> >> Thought about this, but do you think it's the same for the average >> user ? I think X & Y might bring people back to school, correct me if >> I'm wrong. Second remark, maybe having a long word next to the >> spinbutton looks better than a single letter ? > > I'm not sure we understood each other here, so let me expand: > > Confronted with "X" and "Y", it costs me some mental effort to determine > which way around the directions are. I have to bring up a mental picture > of a graph and tend to remain unsure. I assume that I'm not alone with > that. > > But if I read "Vertical" and "Horizontal", there's only a minimal > translation effort to the referenced concepts.
For me, the mental effort for »X« and »Horizontal« is nearly the same. What about making it even easier (& non-techy) by using »Top« and »Left«? (Or »Top / Bottom« and »Left / Right« if you must, but that overcomplicates it just for accuracy reasons). > Of course showing it graphically beats even those labels. To keep the > layout simple, you could use a vertical and a horizontal line with a dot > on top/left and an arrow head on bottom/right in place of text labels > (or perhaps in addition, if necessary for a11y). _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
