civictechdc / districthousing

District Housing lets caseworkers help clients apply for Section 8 housing by automatically filling out multiple PDF applications using one online form.
http://codefordc.github.io/districthousing/
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Enable the application to use the Checkbox field type instead of Text fields for checkboxes #389

Open mlouie opened 8 years ago

mlouie commented 8 years ago

We use text fields for checkboxes and print a text character to indicate that the checkbox has been ticked or not. This design makes it harder for case workers to click on checkboxes in Adobe Acrobat to toggle the value. Instead of clicking once to toggle, they must click into a text field and then remove or add a text value.

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jrunningen commented 8 years ago

Checkboxes should work, when properly labeled: https://districthousing.org/dictionary#tickboxes

In your example image, you should create checkboxes with the following labels: "Hispanic or Latino" -> EthnicityHispanicTickYes "Not Hispanic or Latino" -> EthnicityHispanicTickNo "Male" -> GenderMaleTickYes "Female" -> GenderFemaleTickYes