[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38115: Add Highlight button to TinyMCE toolbar to allow highlighting (replaces Underline with <mark> element)

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#38115: Add Highlight button to TinyMCE toolbar to allow highlighting (replaces
Underline with <mark> element)
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 Reporter:  mor10        |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  TinyMCE      |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 Extending #27159

 Highlighting of content has become popularized thanks to platforms like
 Medium, and providing a proper semantic highlighting function in the
 TinyMCE editor will allow authors to bring attention to content without
 adding emphasis - an important difference for accessibility.

 The Highlight button would trigger the `<mark>` element:
 https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/mark

 Reasoning:
 With the removal of the Underline button, authors will not be able to
 highlight text without either emphasizing or strongly emphasizing it, or
 using the text editor to manually apply the `<mark>` element. Why is this
 needed? Emphasis changes the meaning of content, especially when using
 accessibility tools like screen readers, and it is unreasonable to expect
 the average WordPress user to know the existence and purpose of relatively
 obscure HTML elements.

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