[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36410: Misleading translators comment and bad string

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#36410: Misleading translators comment and bad string
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 Reporter:  dimadin        |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N           |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  accessibility  |
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 There is a string "View %1$s version %2$s details" that is used multiple
 times for aria-label attribute and where first placeholder is plugin/theme
 name and second is its version. This is fine.

 There is also a string "View %1$s version %2$s details." (note dot at the
 end) that is used on Updates screen in table for plugins updates and
 visible to all users (easily reproducible by decreasing version of any
 plugin).

 While this string has same translator comment as previous ("1: Plugin name
 2: Plugin version"), it is not the same nor this comment is true. First
 placeholder is actually a tag for screen readers and is not visible, so
 HTML it produces is
 {{{
 View <span class="screen-reader-text">Akismet</span> version 3.1.10
 details.
 }}}
 while user sees
 {{{
 View version 3.1.10 details.
 }}}

 Problem with this is that translator doesn't know that this is screen
 reader tag, and even if it does know, it can be hard to translate when you
 have limited option (tag is in placeholder, not in string). I and at least
 French translator had wrong assumption what is output.

 I added three patches with different methods of how could this be solved
 (I would personally go with third; I don't see need for plugin name here),
 but if any output should look like this, second option with tag in a
 string is better, which is a point of whole ticket.

 Introduced in [35866].

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36410>
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