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Provide default values Usability Guideline

Description

Display default values whenever a likely default choice can be defined. Provide a default quantity.

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When likely default values are known, offer those values to speed data entry. The initial or default item could be the most frequently selected item or the last item selected by that user.

Applicable standards

Note: The guidelines.usability.gov website has been down since July 2020, although www.usability.gov is still operating and the PDF version of the guidelines is still available.

Change history

  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: UseGov13.18.2