Inconsistencies of Moodle forms
For the time being this is only a list of inconsistencies I noticed when working with different Moodle forms. I hope to find time to make some suggestions for improvements.
Moodle uses quite a lot of dropdown menus for yes/no questions. These require (at least) two mouse clicks for selecting an option. Therefore alternatives like a simple checkbox or radio buttons would make for better usability and avoid some inconsistencies in the Moodle UI (see screenshot).
Further information:
- "Yes/no questions: dropdown, radio buttons or checkbox?"
- "Poll: A yes/no question in a web form, which control(s) would you use?"
- General Developer forum thread
Checkboxes
- You tick a checkbox to activate a feature and you untick it for deactivating - or was it the other way round...?
- This one was fixed in Moodle 2.0--Tim Hunt 00:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
- The checkboxes should be on the left. That way no additional prompt would be necessary and accessibility (especially for screen readers) would improve.
- This would break the alignment of the form. Suppose you had an optional date followed by a non-optional date - it would be useful if the sub-fields lined up, so you could easily see whether the second date was 7 days after the first. I also think it would be better to have the checkbox first, I am just saying it is not as simple as that.--Tim Hunt 00:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
See also
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