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Re:Canistilluse.com by yoursunny on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:58AM (#28315020)
> Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl/cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user.

These users need to retake the computer literate 101 class.

When I'm in elementary school, we learned how to multi-select in the tutorial system that comes with Windows 3.1.

I don't know why Windows XP deleted these very important tutorials and replaced them with a webpage.

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Re:Canistilluse.com by jwarren on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:04AM (#28315095)
There are lots of people without your educational background. It's a few years old now, but I remember finding Alice Bartlett's talk on <select> box inaccessability [1] quite instructive.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkMCQR4TpY

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