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Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

#50442 new enhancement

Add prefixes to all admin notices (Warning, Error, Success, Info)

Reported by: kebbet's profile kebbet Owned by:
Milestone: Awaiting Review Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Administration Keywords:
Focuses: ui, ui-copy Cc:

Description (last modified by sabernhardt)

This is a continuation #47656

From @afercia comment (ticket:47656#comment:47)

I would like to add

  • Combine strings constructed like __('Error:') . __('any string') into one string for better context for translators.

Change History (3)

#1 @apedog
3 years ago

I understand the reasoning behind having mandatory Error and Warning prefixes. I don't hold an opinion either way - but I understand why it can be considered beneficial. It might not be pretty. It might be redundant for some messages (eg. strings that already contain the word 'error' in them) but they're a good marker/label for those notices. Good for accessibility. They grab attention regardless of coloring scheme. And they're unambiguous.

However mandatory 'Info' and 'Success' prefixes would just be annoying.

Adding the word 'Info' to what is already an information string does not add any new information. It's already information. It's not only redundant it's stupid.

The only difference between Info and Success notices is that Success notices accompany an action while Info notices are passive notices. There is no real accessibility need (none that I know or can think of) to disambiguate them from Info notices. Not in the way that Error and Warning need to stand out.

-1 for adding mandatory 'Info' and 'Success' prefixes.

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


3 years ago

#3 @sabernhardt
2 years ago

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