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Label placement in forms and other time-consuming forms controversies

Jane Matthews 19 March 2020 17 May 2010
Label placement in forms and other time-consuming forms controversies

A presentation on Label placement in forms, at the Technical Communication Summit, the 56th Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Dallas, US, May 2010. Amongst the time-consuming controversies we look at are left and right alignment, labels aboveContinue reading… Label placement in forms and other time-consuming forms controversies

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