[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49616: Audit /wp-admin and sentence-case UI elements (buttons, drop-downs) for better readability

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#49616: Audit /wp-admin and sentence-case UI elements (buttons, drop-downs) for
better readability
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 Reporter:  sixhours        |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |     Focuses:  accessibility, ui-copy
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Comment (by aduth):

 Related recent Slack discussion, from #core-editor chat on 2020-02-26:

 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB2JS7/p1582727178065300

 Which itself related to a conversation in the Gutenberg repository:

 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/20187#issuecomment-585855450

 And relevant guidelines from the Gutenberg and Core handbooks,
 respectively:

 >When it comes to headlines and subheads, there are two ways to
 capitalize:
 >
 >In Title Case, the First Letter of Almost Every Word Is Capitalized
 >
 >In sentence case, only the first letter of the line is capitalized
 >
 >Feature names and dashboard sections typically use title case (think
 “Site Stats” or “Recently Published”), whereas feature labels typically
 use sentence case (like “Show buttons on” or “Comment Likes are,” where
 “Likes” is capitalized because it’s the feature name, but the overall
 label is using sentence case).
 >
 >When you’re looking at a full page of UI copy, make sure you’re being
 consistent across all of it, and that all similar kinds of copy—headlines,
 tooltips, buttons, etc.—are using the same case.

 From: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/contributors/document
 /copy-guide/#five-pay-attention-to-capitalization

 >Capitalization
 >
 >- Labels
 >- Button labels
 >- Actions

 From: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-
 practices/spelling/#capitalization

 Ideally, I think these should be converged toward one (well-defined)
 standard, so that we have a reference guideline against which any changes
 would be made.

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