Question

Microsoft Access 2016: Computer Information Systems

What are the advantages of including a caption for a form? Do you need both a caption and a title? Why or Why not? What other elements do you think should be standard on a data entry form used by an organization?

Answer 1

Adding captions to increase accessibility is probably one of the most obvious reasons captioning is essential. Mainly,Captions are useful when you want to provide more detailed headings for your field names. For example, instead of displaying the rather ambiguous DOB field name, you could add a more meaningful "Date of Birth" caption to the DOB field to make your forms and reports easier to read and understand.

Data entry requires hardware, and the proper design of input devices has received considerable attention, including concern for standardization of keyboard layouts. Future advances in hardware design may well influence data entry tasks, as suggested by current advocacy of voice input.

But the major need in today's information systems is for improving the logic of data entry, and it is there that design guidance should prove most helpful. Thus the guidelines presented here deal with data entry functions, insofar as possible, without regard to their hardware implementation.