[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50416: 5.5 About Page

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#50416: 5.5 About Page
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 Reporter:               |       Owner:  marybaum
  davidbaumwald          |
     Type:  task         |      Status:  reopened
  (blessed)              |
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  5.5
Component:  Help/About   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  i18n-change  |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility, administration,
                         |  ui-copy
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Comment (by ryelle):

 New video is added to the PR, thanks @audrasjb!

 Thanks for the accessibility feedback, @nrqsnchz. I've added the aria-
 labelledby connection to the figures. There is no audio on the videos, so
 no worry about captioning.

 > Key thing is remembering the target audience for the description, and
 that they need to get the same level of information from the description
 as a sighted audience gets from watching.

 I don't think the current "alt text"s do this, they're more marketing than
 descriptive. Here are the two that are already written.

 For the block patterns video:

 > New block patterns in WordPress 5.5 give you instant access to a variety
 of sophisticated layouts. Browse and choose the ones that tell your story,
 then style them to match your brand. All in real time, in one place,
 without ever looking away from your task in the block editor.

 For the image editor video:

 > The image editor in WordPress 5.5 lets you choose, scale, crop and
 rotate images in real time, without leaving the block editor.

 The autoupdates video still needs a description. If I were writing it, I'd
 probably go way more descriptive, like…

 > Installed plugin screen, which shows a new column, Automatic Updates. In
 this column are buttons that say "Enable auto-updates." When clicked, the
 auto-updates feature is turned on for that plugin, and the button switches
 to say "Disable auto-updates". Two plugins have updates, the updates are
 automatically queued up in 4 hours.

 **Thoughts or feedback on the copy in these descriptions would be much
 appreciated.**

 These strings have not been committed yet, but should be soon— so we can
 still change them, but this should be settled as soon as possible (before
 tomorrow's RC2).

 One other thing— we don't usually add alt text for the images, since the
 copy descriptions cover the images. Would we consider the same for these
 videos?

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