[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #48412: Remove the word ERROR from all error messages

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#48412: Remove the word ERROR from all error messages
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 Reporter:  afercia            |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration     |    Version:
 Severity:  normal             |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, accessibility  |
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 Follow up to ticket:43037#comment:42

 On #43037, some error messages for the login screen were improved and,
 amongst other things, the all caps word `ERROR` was removed..

 There are other occurrences in core of the all caps `ERROR` included in
 error messages, and sentence case `Error` as well.

 I'd like to propose to remove all of them: all caps should be avoided for
 better readability and because screen readers may pronounce all caps words
 as abbreviations.

 Also: sometimes ERROR is all caps, sometimes it's sentence case, sometimes
 it's bold, sometimes the entire error message is bold. The most recently
 added ones (PHP compatibility and SIte Health) seem to use sentence case.
 Some consistency would be nice.

 A few examples:

 {{{
 <strong>ERROR:</strong> There was an error connecting to the server ...
 <strong>Error:</strong> Current WordPress and PHP versions do not meet ...
 <strong>Error:</strong> This plugin <strong>requires a newer version of
 PHP</strong>.
 <strong>' . __( 'ERROR: The network could not be created.' ) . '</strong>
 }}}

 These messages appear in admin notices that are already marked as errors
 because of the red border. Moreover, I'm not sure there's the need to
 specify "error" at the beginning of the message, as that's not relevant
 for users. Instead, it's the content of the message that is relevant. For
 example:

 `ERROR: There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the
 settings are correct.`

 Admittedly, this is the more evident case as the word "error" is repeated
 also in the second part of the message. (note: the comma should be changed
 to a period)

 Also in other cases "Error" could be just removed. For example:

 `Error: Current WordPress and PHP versions do not meet minimum
 requirements for {plugin name here}`

 As a user, I'm not interested whether this is an error, a warning, an
 informational message or whatever :) I'm just interested in the content of
 the message which is already made prominent by the notice styling.

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