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Last modified 8 months ago

#40486 new enhancement

Standard Themes: Logic for translated strings in connection with Screen Reader text can be improved

Reported by: presskopp's profile Presskopp Owned by:
Milestone: Awaiting Review Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Bundled Theme Keywords: dev-feedback
Focuses: Cc:

Description

There are 2 strings including:

screen-reader-text"> "%s"

1)

Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>

&

2)

Edit<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>

In german (as an example, I assume this happens too in other languages) the syntax for 1) needs to be reversed like that:

<span class="screen-reader-text">"%s"</span> weiterlesen

2) gets:

<span class="screen-reader-text">&#8222;%s&#8220;</span> bearbeiten

which is correct for Screen Reader Users, but it should rather be capitalized in both cases so the button text doesn't start lowercase, see screenshot.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/twentyseventeen/de/default?filters%5Bterm%5D=screen-reader-text%22%3E+%22%25s%22

We could now capitalize the strings in translation, but there must be a better solution!?

PS:
Yes, the quotation marks in our translation also needs a little attention, but that's not part of the ticket ;-)

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Change History (12)

#1 @Presskopp
8 years ago

  • Component changed from I18N to Bundled Theme

#2 @joyously
6 years ago

Would this fix it?

the_content( sprintf(
  /* translators: %s: Name of current post for Continue link, only visible to screen readers, with space before and after */
  esc_html__( 'Continue reading%s', 'twentyseventeen' ),
    '<span class="screen-reader-text"> "' . wp_strip_all_tags( get_the_title() ) . '" </span>'
) );

and

edit_post_link(
  sprintf(
  /* translators: %s: Name of current post for edit link, only visible to screen readers, with space before and after */
    esc_html__( 'Edit%s', 'twentyseventeen' ),
      '<span class="screen-reader-text"> "' . wp_strip_all_tags( get_the_title() ) . '" </span>'
    ),
  ' <span class="edit-link">',
  '</span>'
);

It doesn't address the capitalization problem though.

#3 @Presskopp
2 years ago

  • Summary changed from Twenty Seventeen: Logic for translated strings in connection with Screen Reader text can be improved to Standard Themes: Logic for translated strings in connection with Screen Reader text can be improved

#4 @mrfoxtalbot
21 months ago

I can confirm that this is still happening. It came up in a support thread.

#5 @poena
13 months ago

@joedolson Hi! This ticket brings up theme "continue reading" links and "edit post" links that combine a text with a visually hidden post title.

In the themes that are mentioned in the ticket, the post title is inside double quotes (").
Example:

the_content(
	sprintf(
	/* translators: %s: Post title. Only visible to screen readers. */
	__( 'Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentyseventeen' ),
	get_the_title()
	)
);

Is there any accessibility benefit to placing the post title within quotes?

The themes are Twenty Sixteen, Twenty Seventeen, and Twenty Nineteen, so it is not consistent across all default themes.
For example Twenty Fifteen uses the following code:

the_content(
	sprintf(
		/* translators: %s: Post title. Only visible to screen readers. */
		__( 'Continue reading %s', 'twentyfifteen' ),
		the_title( '<span class="screen-reader-text">', '</span>', false )
	)
);

#6 @joedolson
13 months ago

No, there's no advantage to wrapping the title in quotation punctuation in the screen reader text. Some screen readers might read them out or interpret them as a pause, but that's heavily dependent on screen reader configuration and voice synthesizer. I wouldn't consider it an advantage in any case; just a difference. If a pause is desired, then more consistent approach would be to use a colon, e.g.:

the_content(
	sprintf(
	/* translators: %s: Post title. Only visible to screen readers. */
	__( 'Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text">: %s</span>', 'twentyseventeen' ),
	get_the_title()
	)
);

#7 @poena
11 months ago

@Presskopp For these text strings where the order needs to be changed during translation, it is difficult for someone who is not a native German speaker to propose a new markup.

I wonder if it would be an improvement if there were two separate texts. If the visible link text was "Edit", but there was an aria label with the full context: "Edit %post title".

#8 @Presskopp
11 months ago

@poena

Either the texts should be both exactly the same or they needed to be separated, yes. As we can see it doesn't work if 2 strings get concatenated and make a part of that "screen reader only"

Last edited 11 months ago by Presskopp (previous) (diff)

#9 @poena
11 months ago

I don't understand what "the texts should be both exactly the same" means.
But I also don't understand why

<span class="screen-reader-text">&#8222;%s&#8220;</span> Bearbeiten

would be a problem if Bearbeiten needs to be capitalized. And that capitalization is added by the translator. I think I am missing the point. The screen reader software is not going to read it incorrectly just because it is capitalized?

#10 @Presskopp
11 months ago

@poena I'm sorry we seem to have lost each other. All I try to say is, that "bearbeiten" as seen on the screenshot must be capitalized, while it must not for the screen reader text. I can't tell if a screen reader reads "Bearbeiten" differently then "bearbeiten".

#11 @karmatosed
8 months ago

  • Keywords dev-feedback added
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