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Subject:Re: Matching the CAPITALIZATION of the interface From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:50:29 -0800 (PST)
> Amen. If you want to file issues with the UI through whatever
> system your organization uses, by all means do so, but once
> those who set your objectives make it clear that a decision has
> been made, your job is to provide whatever support is necessary
> to get it out on time so that its stupidity can be made evident
> to all.
OTOH, as was the case at my last gig, the department of which I was a
member, was the department responsible for the wording on the
interface. It was Product Engineering that couldn't sign off on their
end until we approved of the UI text, labels, and error messages.
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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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