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I think the easiest way to fix would be to add a colon, so that you see you have to pick an option: Click to start: [sound on] [sound off]

kqr 3y ago
Or have the "click to start" text cliclable and start the game with sound. Anyone who wants it muted will make sure to first click the mute symbol and then the ambiguity resolves itself anyway.
- wruza 3y ago
  MathDoku does that and I hate it, because sometimes cookies expire and it plays loud music in the middle of the night when I start it. What's wrong with [ CLICK TO START ] [x] Allow sound Keep it simple
  - kqr 3y ago
    I think most people would agree your solution is preferable, but the spirit of this subthread was "what's the smallest change that would improve things" rather than "how could it be redesigned from scratch?" I would also argue the MathDoku problem is different. That sounds like a mode confusion type issue, where the user expects a certain level of automation but it has been disabled by the system without adequate feedback.
    - maxcoder4 3y ago
      What's wrong with "start with sound" and "start without sound"? That's a guaranteed single click, whereas with a checkbox you need either one or two clicks.
medstrom 3y ago
Even better: [Start with sound] [Start without sound]
- sublinear 3y ago
  100% this. Buttons represent verbs.
  - notpushkin 3y ago
    Button may be a verb, but it doesn't have to. Generally, buttons represent one of three things: 1. an action – this is usually a verb in the imperative mood (e.g. Reply, Save, Add to basket) 2. a status – those omit the verb and only specify the new state of an object, which might be a lot of things, like a noun (Spam), an adjective (Favourite) or maybe an adverb (In progress, Later) 3. a navigation item – on the Web, this is better represented as a link, so let's not go into this here I would argue that "with/without sound" is a clear example of a status here.
    - sublinear 3y ago
      It's still way clearer to not omit the verb. "Report spam" vs just "Spam". Also links are not buttons. There's nothing to get into here. It's straight up wrong from every perspective to think of a link as a button even from an accessibility standpoint.

kqr 3y ago

Or have the "click to start" text cliclable and start the game with sound. Anyone who wants it muted will make sure to first click the mute symbol and then the ambiguity resolves itself anyway.

wruza 3y ago
MathDoku does that and I hate it, because sometimes cookies expire and it plays loud music in the middle of the night when I start it. What's wrong with [ CLICK TO START ] [x] Allow sound Keep it simple
- kqr 3y ago
  I think most people would agree your solution is preferable, but the spirit of this subthread was "what's the smallest change that would improve things" rather than "how could it be redesigned from scratch?" I would also argue the MathDoku problem is different. That sounds like a mode confusion type issue, where the user expects a certain level of automation but it has been disabled by the system without adequate feedback.
  - maxcoder4 3y ago
    What's wrong with "start with sound" and "start without sound"? That's a guaranteed single click, whereas with a checkbox you need either one or two clicks.

medstrom 3y ago

Even better: [Start with sound] [Start without sound]

sublinear 3y ago
100% this. Buttons represent verbs.
- notpushkin 3y ago
  Button may be a verb, but it doesn't have to. Generally, buttons represent one of three things: 1. an action – this is usually a verb in the imperative mood (e.g. Reply, Save, Add to basket) 2. a status – those omit the verb and only specify the new state of an object, which might be a lot of things, like a noun (Spam), an adjective (Favourite) or maybe an adverb (In progress, Later) 3. a navigation item – on the Web, this is better represented as a link, so let's not go into this here I would argue that "with/without sound" is a clear example of a status here.
  - sublinear 3y ago
    It's still way clearer to not omit the verb. "Report spam" vs just "Spam". Also links are not buttons. There's nothing to get into here. It's straight up wrong from every perspective to think of a link as a button even from an accessibility standpoint.