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> the folks at ryka, a manufacturer of women's shoes, wanted to be certain that no potential customers could be excluded. thus, rather than providing option (or
by MBlume 12y ago
> the folks at ryka, a manufacturer of women's shoes, wanted to be certain that no potential customers could be excluded. thus, rather than providing option (or radio) buttons to indicate one's gender, they decided to use checkboxes, to allow the potential customer to indicate male, female, or, well, both, and for that matter, none.
Er, yes? That is in fact somewhat more inclusive than choosing male or female with radio buttons? Not ideal, but still better? Why is this in a hall of shame?
- Retr0spectrum 12y agoI agree, but if the user left both boxes unchecked you would have no way of validating whether they had simply forgotten to answer the question. A drop-down list would probably best, with "Male", "Female" and "Other"