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Re:I Spent a Year Building an Android Course for the Elderly... by RankingMember on Thursday December 05, 2024 @04:09PM (#42332773)
I love how exhaustive your approach to documentation is here, because (like you said) it really does need to be to be truly useful. If the user doesn't know how to get to "Contacts", saying "Start by opening Contacts" does them no good and just discourages them.
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Re:I Spent a Year Building an Android Course for the Elderly... by kcsaba2 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:09PM (#42333407)
Thank you for your kind words!
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Re:I Spent a Year Building an Android Course for the Elderly... by suzzer99 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:20PM (#42334458)
Yes. My dad needs very explicit step-by-step instructions. Even to the point of I can't just say hit Ctrl-C. I have to tell him to hold down the Control key and then hit the C key while still holding down the Control key.
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