Block List: Does not recognize the current state

[La Geek]

Block list, WP 5.0.2
mouse hover icons ordered list and unordered list, it always says: "convert to xx list"

[swissspidy]

What's your expected behaviour?

I don't think we can disable the button for accessibility and usability reasons.

Also, changing the wording to something like "This list is already unordered" sounds weird to me.

[La Geek]

Maybe both strings could be renamed to only "ordered list" and "unordered list" and "convert to" could be removed completely.

Atm it is nonsens and confusing, you can't convert something that is already converted.

You can't change black to black ;-)

[La Geek]

In the case the programming does recognize the state and the list shows an ordered list, the icons should be

Ordered List <---> Convert to Unordered List

When the list is an unordered one, the icons should be

Convert to Ordered List <---> Unordered List

[afercia]

Generally, UI control names shouldn't change dynamically to represent the underlying state. Name and state are two different things.

This applies to all users and especially to assistive technologies users. Imagine screen reader users or speech input users: once they learn a control name is "xyz", they will search for and try to use that control name. For example. as a speech input user I learn a control's name is "Italic": voicing the command "Click Italic" will activate the control. But if the control's name changes once it gets activated, I'd be forced to discover what the new control's name is and voice that instead. Less than ideal.

Probably both strings could be changed from "convert to ordered list" to (only) "ordered list", the same for "unordered list".

I'd second it: the shorter, the better. Also, in the Classic Editor, these buttons are simply named "Bulleted list" and "Numbered list". Not sure why their name has been changed in the first place.

[La Geek]

For consistency purposes the short names "Bulleted list" and "Numbered list" would be the best.

[La Geek]

Does work now as expected (in 5.2)