[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36447: Responsive preview icons in Customizer need tooltips

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#36447: Responsive preview icons in Customizer need tooltips
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 Reporter:  ahortin      |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Customize    |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 The new icons at the bottom of the Customizer for toggling the preview
 window of your site really need tooltips to indicate what they're for.

 Just like the tooltips on the Visual Editor icons, other icons in the
 Dashboard should have tooltips as well. As leading usability expert Jakob
 Nielsen explains;

 >A user’s understanding of an icon is based on previous experience. Due to
 the absence of a standard usage for most icons, text labels are necessary
 to communicate the meaning and reduce ambiguity.

 https://www.nngroup.com/articles/icon-usability/

 Even the Google Design Guidelines recommend tooltips for icons
 https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/tooltips.html#

 I originally raised this as a post on the
 [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-preview-icons-in-
 customizer-need-tooltips Beta forum] but it was suggested that since it's
 getting late in the 4.5 release cycle it would be best to raise it as a
 Trac ticket.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36447>
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