[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27159: Removing TinyMCE buttons to improve user experience

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#27159: Removing TinyMCE buttons to improve user experience
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 Reporter:  hugobaeta    |       Owner:  hugobaeta
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.7
Component:  TinyMCE      |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Comment (by mrwweb):

 I think we need to approach this like a mini feature project that involves
 research of other editors, a full inventory of the existing editor buttons
 (semantic-ness, valid use cases, UX/a11y problems), a clear goal for the
 project (by which to measure success in tests), and then user testing. I
 think most of the "talking in circles" (which is definitely happening) is
 from unclear goals and hitting walls on how to set up a user test that
 isn't just a survey of user preferences.

 For a while, I wondered if making some incremental changes would be
 valuable, but I'd rather try to push this back and get it done right in
 one pass. (If we're going to make people mad, let's do it once and not
 twice.) So I'd vote for punting to 4.8. That would also let us make some
 progress on #38315, #38049, and maybe #38050.

 To keep things moving forward, we '''''have to''''' find this mythical
 editor data. That will require help from an Automattician or two.
 @melchoyce? @hugobaeta?

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