From: Geoff on
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:44:40 -0400, Dr_Kral(a)nyc.rr.com.invalid wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:46:55 +0100, Geoff <geoff(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in
><tajvq5psld63i6c305vlnsu47vpqpplsui(a)4ax.com>:
>
>Geoff,
>
>>http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm
>I see that this page is gone. You should not assume that everyone is
>on-line and available to match your schedule.

K.

sorry - I have put it back at

http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm

I thought people had moved on. What would be a reasonable length of
time to keep it there?

>>Your point has been accepted.
>I will note that there are several more inconsistencies of that sort in it.
>I recall the following --
>
>* This is the only place that one is to answer age as, e.g., 15 years and
>12 months rather than 16 years and 0 months.

I will check this.

>* There is one question were three of five check boxes each produce an
>additional question (which is OK) but they are all labeled the same.

and this

Thanks

Geoff
From: Geoff on
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:44:40 -0400, Dr_Kral(a)nyc.rr.com.invalid wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:46:55 +0100, Geoff <geoff(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in
><tajvq5psld63i6c305vlnsu47vpqpplsui(a)4ax.com>:
>
>Geoff,
>
>>http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm
>I see that this page is gone. You should not assume that everyone is
>on-line and available to match your schedule.

K.

I have made some changes at

http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm

Cheers

Geoff
From: Dr_Kral on
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:50:25 +0100, Geoff <geoff(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in
<1s0cr5h3urdh0rk1v4kef0q159na4o6u24(a)4ax.com>:

>>>http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm
>>I see that this page is gone. You should not assume that everyone is
>>on-line and available to match your schedule.
>sorry - I have put it back at
>
>http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm
>
>I thought people had moved on. What would be a reasonable length of
>time to keep it there?
I don't know. Perhaps as long as you would like answers but certainly at
least a week. Perhaps permanently, so anyone new can look at it if they
wished.

It a lot cleaner now than it was before. Either the user code box is too
small or the instructions are wrong. One can still answer 5years+12months
as well as 6years+0months. And the calendar year is now 2010 and in just
eight months will be 2011 (hint).

You might want to consider a simple one character alt text for that circle
thing. Imagine what would happen if the image was not available. Why not
use &#9679; (bullet) as the alternate. Better yet, lose the image and just
use it

K.

From: Geoff on
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:55:09 -0400, Dr_Kral(a)nyc.rr.com.invalid wrote:

>On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:50:25 +0100, Geoff <geoff(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in
><1s0cr5h3urdh0rk1v4kef0q159na4o6u24(a)4ax.com>:
>
>>>>http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm
>>>I see that this page is gone. You should not assume that everyone is
>>>on-line and available to match your schedule.
>>sorry - I have put it back at
>>
>>http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm
>>
>>I thought people had moved on. What would be a reasonable length of
>>time to keep it there?
>I don't know. Perhaps as long as you would like answers but certainly at
>least a week. Perhaps permanently, so anyone new can look at it if they
>wished.
K.

I prefer a week I think ...

>It a lot cleaner now than it was before. Either the user code box is too
>small or the instructions are wrong.

However did the extra text get in there?!

> One can still answer 5years+12months
>as well as 6years+0months. And the calendar year is now 2010 and in just
>eight months will be 2011 (hint).

I have changed to having zero years and 11 months - make sense?

>You might want to consider a simple one character alt text for that circle
>thing. Imagine what would happen if the image was not available. Why not
>use &#9679; (bullet) as the alternate. Better yet, lose the image and just
>use it

I have changed to the bullet alone.

Thanks

Geoff
>
>K.
From: Dr J R Stockton on
In comp.lang.javascript message <0r2cr5teakgfvrun3fbecetjg57icembe0(a)4ax.
com>, Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:21:33, Geoff <geoff(a)invalid.invalid> posted:

>http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm

Even if you intend only to print that out or otherwise send it to the
clients, it would IMHO be well to include, perhaps separated from the
Questionnaire by a Rule, such reference items as a link to other parts
of the site, a date, a name, a means of offering suggestions.

If you put year, month. and day in that order, you can adjust the length
of the month before readers get to that; and it would be prettier if all
were of the same width (I'm looking with FF 3.0.19). But, IMHO, people
can enter DoB faster as YYYY-MM-DD than with three drop-downs, and
validation is easy enough onBlur or otherwise. Given DoB and date, do
you need to ask Age?

Select Months should use Jan-Dec or 1-12, not 0-11.

To me, Age of diagnosis means "How long diagnosed?", Others may take it
as meaning "Age at diagnosis?".

It might be useful to ask *which" spoken language is preferred, and
whether English will be satisfactory.

If the form is filled in on the Web, can a Google Translate version be
used? Could you tell? Does it matter?

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