Balloon Help

• Do you provide Balloon Help for items in dialog boxes, alert boxes,
  and menus?
• Do you provide Balloon Help for application window contents?
• Do you provide a custom help balloon for your application icon,
  if appropriate?
• Do your help balloons answer at least one of these questions:
  • What is this?
  • What does this do?
  • What happens if I click this?

• Is the content of the help balloons short and easy to understand?
• Do you use clear, concise phrases and active constructions?
• Do you use terminology consistently?
• When a balloon appears, is it positioned so that it does not obstruct any interface elements being referred to by the balloon?
• Do you provide different balloon messages for different states of an item (such as enabled, disabled, and checked)?
• Do you add a menu item for help-related information to the Help menu? Does this menu item use the name of your application?