Bug 151161 - StartCenter: Document filter: add tooltip instead of permanent description in UI
Summary: StartCenter: Document filter: add tooltip instead of permanent description in UI
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: lowest trivial
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: accessibility, needsUXEval
Depends on:
Blocks: Start-Center
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Reported: 2022-09-24 11:05 UTC by steve
Modified: 2022-09-26 09:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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startcenter > filter > all applications (322.06 KB, image/png)
2022-09-24 11:06 UTC, steve
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Description steve 2022-09-24 11:05:31 UTC
Description:
Add tooltip to document filter and remove "Filter:" description from UI.

Steps to Reproduce:
Open StartCenter

Actual Results:
The document filter currently shows as "Filter:" following by the document filter dropdown.

Expected Results:
Don't think, that description is needed. Most times, filter selections don't come with discriptions. And the UI is intuitive enough to convey what it does without a description.

Thus I would argue that a tooltip showing "Filter documents by component" or something similar would be sufficient.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 9940a5dce79fe9dc3e6ff0302c9be8c7d1648f67
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 12.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: de-DE (en_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 steve 2022-09-24 11:06:31 UTC
Created attachment 182659 [details]
startcenter > filter > all applications
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2022-09-24 21:47:49 UTC
The 'Filter:' label of the combination box is necessary for Keyboard navigation of the UI and Assistive Technology support.  Needs to stay for a11y reasons.

Enable VoiceOver, ORCA or NVDA and navigate the StartCenter with F10, F6 <TAB> and cursor <U,D,L,R> -- what is sounded is what gets provided for AT, try the UI that way and decide if this or similar labels can go.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2022-09-26 09:29:25 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> The 'Filter:' label of the combination box is necessary for Keyboard
> navigation of the UI and Assistive Technology support.  Needs to stay for
> a11y reasons.

This, and labels are good for newcomers. At some point I'd like to add a Sort-function too so you can have the most recent document on top or the largest etc. And it's not that we don't have the space...

Regarding a11y I'm not sure whether this is implemented correctly. Worth a ticket if missing.