[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38061: Rename the text window name on the editor

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#38061: Rename the text window name on the editor
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 Reporter:  lukecavanagh             |       Owner:  afercia
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Editor                   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-refresh  |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Comment (by mark-k):

 Replying to [comment:23 afercia]:
 > > which leads to the question why should it exist in the first place
 >
 > @mark-k although the textarea is filled up with HTML comments, blocks
 meta-data, and stuff that make readability of the "code" harder, a native
 HTML textarea is the only guarantee the post content can be edited using
 any device and any assistive technology.

 Since that is neither HTML nor "code" (whatever that means) I wonder how
 any assistive technology can make any sense of what is there. Can it
 really voice "[galley]" as "A gallery shortcode without parameters"? Can
 it differentiate between "youtube.com/nnnnn" as an embed and as a text?

 IMHO it is not enough to just throw text into a textarea and just because
 there is an aria attribute, or whatever is needed, to call it assistive
 technology friendly. Maybe it is friendly to the technology but it is
 unlikely to be friendly to any human that uses it. How will it announce
 the gutenber json data?
 Regardless of assistive technology, why would you even want to expose the
 gutenberg data to be edited by hand?

 I have no knowledge of assistive technology, but it sounds to me that
 everything in an editor which should be friendly to people that need it,
 needs some semantic annotation of what everything actually means in
 addition to it being a general text. This probably should eliminate any
 usage of textarea for it.

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