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Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#47125 new defect (bug)

Admin: clarify the "Add New" links for better accessibility

Reported by: afercia's profile afercia Owned by:
Milestone: Future Release Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Administration Keywords: has-screenshots has-patch
Focuses: ui, accessibility Cc:

Description

In the admin menu and in some of the admin pages, various links use "Add New" as link text. While these links are clarified by the visual context, they are not so meaningful when read out of context.

Assistive technologies provide tools to list all the links in a page and dedicated keyboard shortcuts to navigate through links. In this scenario, a link that only says "Add New" isn't sufficiently clear: users won't have a clue what the purpose and destination of the link is.

One more scenario: users who use speech input software (e.g. Dragon) will voice a command like "Click add new". However, in a standard WordPress page there are at least 5 "Add New" links. The software will display choices to users (usually by displaying numbers close to all the links that it has identified as "Add New"). Then, users will have to:

  • visually identify on the screen the highlighted links
  • voice an additional command, e.g. "Choose 3"

This makes the process inefficient and time consuming.

Ideally, all these links should be self-explanatory and provide more context by adding the "what" new is in the text link. For example:

  • Add New Post
  • Add New Media
  • Add New Page
  • Add New Plugin
  • Add New User

Attachments (2)

add new.jpg (118.8 KB) - added by afercia 4 years ago.
VoiceOver links list
47125-patch.diff (25.3 KB) - added by gonzomir 4 years ago.

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Change History (7)

@afercia
4 years ago

VoiceOver links list

#1 @afercia
4 years ago

  • Keywords has-screenshots added

In the screenshot above, the VoiceOver links list showing some of the "Add New" links.

As mentioned previously, this applies also to the "Add New" links within the various pages, e.g. in wp-admin/edit.php and also the ones on multisite.

Related: #47124 and #47012.

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #accessibility by afercia. View the logs.


4 years ago

#3 @afercia
4 years ago

  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release

Discussed during today's accessibility bug scrub and agreed this is something that should be addressed, especially for speech recognition software users.

@gonzomir
4 years ago

#4 @gonzomir
4 years ago

I've submitted a patch that updates all "Add New" links (that I could find in the source) together with "Add Existing" links for users and some comments, theme readmes that reference these links. I'm not sure though that my approach for the post types "Add New" menu items is the best one.

#5 @afercia
4 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added
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