[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47116: Media Editor: Visible labels are not available on editing buttons

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#47116: Media Editor: Visible labels are not available on editing buttons
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 Reporter:  afercia          |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Media            |    Version:
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:  has-screenshots wpcampus-report
  Focuses:  ui,              |
  accessibility              |
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 Moved from the
 [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/created_by/karlgroves
 WPCampus accessibility report issues on GitHub], see
 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/15352

 Visible labels are not available on editing buttons

 -   **Severity:** Medium
 -   **Affected Populations:**
     -   Low-Vision
     -   Cognitively Impaired
 -   **Platform(s):**
     -   All / Universal
 -   **Components affected:**
     -   Edit Media


 #### Issue description


 On the Edit Media page, buttons for editing the selected media image
 have accessible names to label them for assistive technology users,
 however these names are not available to sighted users.

 Since some of the icons are quite cryptic, and there is an ambiguity
 between two sets of icons which both appear to mean Rotate. This may be
 confusing to users with cognitive disabilities. Such users may find
 themselves having to interact with buttons just to figure out what they
 do.


 #### Remediation Guidance


 Add visible text labels to the image editing buttons.

 One method, which would be consistent with the rest of the editor, would
 be to use keyboard-accessible tooltips for this.

 A better method would be to provide a user setting for all icon
 controls, so that users can specify whether to show icons-only,
 labels-only, or icons and labels together.

 **Note:** This issue may be a duplicate with other existing accessibility-
 related bugs in this project. This issue comes from the Gutenberg
 accessibility audit, performed by [Tenon](https://www.tenon.io) and funded
 by [WP Campus](https://wpcampus.org/). This issue is GUT-85 in Tenon's
 report

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