You are absolutely correct about users ignoring and mis-interpreting instructions, we constantly struggle with this. The suggestion is very good.
I find the multi-year-dropdown cumbersome, but maybe it is more functional and there's less probability of a mistake! One minor thing I'd like to add is users in India typically write date in the form of DD/mm/YYYY.
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Thank you for the feedback. :-)
You are absolutely correct about users ignoring and mis-interpreting instructions, we constantly struggle with this. The suggestion is very good.
I find the multi-year-dropdown cumbersome, but maybe it is more functional and there's less probability of a mistake! One minor thing I'd like to add is users in India typically write date in the form of DD/mm/YYYY.
You could still let people type in the year, as that is less ambiguous, but have dropdowns for day and month. Or just have a dropdown for month.
Yes, good idea.
Or just use a date picker which comes up when the field gets focus.
I think pretty much everyone in Commonwealth countries uses dd/mm/yyyy. We use it in Canada too.
Maybe show a calendar with a dropdown select menu for the year?