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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 2 16:35:52 -0700
2006 -------
I remind the existence of the Dialogue principles, Part 10 of ISO 9241
"Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals", which
*require* a dialogue system to conform to suitability for the task (the dialogue
should be suitable for the user's task and skill level), self-descriptiveness
(the dialogue should make it clear what the user should do next), conformity
with user expectations (it should be consistent), and suitability for learning
(it should support the user to learn the dialogue system).
I gather that it is claimed (but not proved!) that moving or adding the page
setup to the file menu would make it easier for Word users to find it
("suitability for the user's skill level"). But it is undisputed that this would
totally break the dialogue's self-descriptiveness (the page setup does not work
on the file, but on the styles of the current page), conformity with user's
expectations (which is not what a user trained on one existing dialogue system
expects to find on a certain place in that specific dialogue system, but, in a
more abstract sense, what users may expect from a consistent dialogue system and
what conforms to the user's experiences and acknowledged common standards), and
suitability for learning (formatting properties can be found altogether in the
formatting menu).
I therefore cannot express how much I disagree with the purpose of this issue,
which I consider completely ignorant of ergonomic standards.
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