On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:54:19 +0100, David Taylor wrote:

> On 15/06/2018 15:22, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Rob Morley wrote:
>>
>>> Andy Burns wrote:
>>>
>>>> 
>>>
>>> Do people actually this sort of fuzzy "click this, click this, click
>>> this" video instruction helpful?
>>
>> No, I prefer text instructions, same as I would like the BBC's news
>> site to give the text of a story, rather than force me to watch/listen
>> to a reporter.
> []
> Seconded.  I want something instructional I can save as text, and
> perhaps even use copy and paste!  PDF is acceptable when diagrams or
> screenshots are included.  I'm very unlikely to bother with a video;
> particularly one with poor audio as often is the case.

Thirded. For all the reasons given above, plus its much easier to follow
instructions in a page of text with a terminal window open alongside it
to type or cut and paste into.

I reckon you'd need to be functionally illiterate to find a video more
useful than text.


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