RE: Click X, or click the X button?

["Claudine CHAUSSON" <claudine -dot- chausson -at- jwaretechnologies -dot- com>]

I use: Click XYZ. The UI I'm documenting mostly uses links to trigger
actions. Each link is made of a small icon followed by the name of the
action. Since the UI is not, in my eyes, very user-friendly, I try to guide
my users with a screen capture of the icon followed by the name of the
command. So far, I haven't had any comments on that since my first doc for
that company is due next week. I hope the final customer finds it useful!

Also, as I write in English and since English is not my first language (nor
my customer's), I find "Click XYZ" easier to understand (and to translate?)
for an international audience. But maybe I'm wrong.

Claudine



Claudine CHAUSSON
Technical writer
JWARE Technologies
 
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