[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47118: Media Editor: Undo and Redo icons are not consistent throughout the interface

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#47118: Media Editor: Undo and Redo icons are not consistent throughout the
interface
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 Reporter:  afercia                          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                           |   Milestone:  5.3
Component:  Media                            |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  wpcampus-report has-screenshots  |     Focuses:  ui,
                                             |  accessibility
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Comment (by afercia):

 Re: aria-label vs. screen-reader-text

 In Gutenberg, the buttons use aria-label also because their tooltips use
 the text from the aria-label. This allows to expose the buttons accessible
 name visually, both on hover and on focus.

 In the media editor the buttons use screen-reader-text just because of
 historical reasons. The visually hidden text allows screen reader users to
 understand what the buttons are about.

 However, these media editor buttons don't expose their names visually.
 This is a problem for sighted users who can only use the keyboard or a
 technology that mimics the keyboard. For example: speech recognition
 software (Dragon) users. They need to know what a UI control name is to be
 able to voice a command like, for example: "Click flip vertically".

 Not to mention cognitive impairments or simply different cultural
 background or non-familiarity with icons. Controls that use only icons are
 problematic for many users. This issue was discussed at length in the
 Gutenberg project and still needs to be fully addressed.

 Accessible tooltips would help but they still wouldn't solve the issue for
 speech recognition software users. Worth also reminding that the
 introduction of tooltips in core was discussed many years ago and there
 was no consensus.

 Gutenberg uses tooltips though, so I guess it's time to start some new
 conversation to evaluate their introduction in core.

 As said, they wouldn't be sufficient anyway: the UI should offer options
 to reveal the controls name, see this related issue on the Gutenberg
 GitHub: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/10524

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