Open afercia opened 4 months ago
Good issue. I'd appreciate verbiage suggestions. I've shuffled some labels around to account for that.
I wonder whether 'List View' is the best name for the feature that shows and allows to navigate the hierarchy of blocks in the first place.
Anecdotally, every time I have conversations with users, we commonly refer to this feature as 'the list of blocks'.
Does the term 'view' in 'List view' helps users in any way? Is it really a 'view'? I'm not sure this can be called a 'view'. To me, it's a list of the objects in the content that shows their hierarchy and nesting, and it allows to navigate and select them.
It's a list, why not call it 'Blocks List'? Yes, there are 'Patterns' as well, but after all they're a collection of blocks.
Another point of overlap is the work on data views that includes table, grid, etc, and can also be referred to as a list view.
Description
Splitting this out from https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/61535
The editor has a 'List View' feature to show and navigate the hierarchy of blocks.
Some blocks do have a 'List view' setting to display their content in a list, as opposed to a 'Grid view'. See for example the Latest Posts, RSS, and Post Template bocks.
As such, the editor UI uses the terminology 'list view' for very different features. While this may not a big problem for sighted users, it is very confusing for blind users, users with cognitive impairments, low tech-savvy users etc.
Features in software should use unambiguous names to avoid any potential confusion.
Cc @alexstine
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Latest Posts block:
RSS block:
Post Template block:
Additiobnally, the ambigous string may be confusing for translators as well. A few examples:
In Spanish it's 'Vista de lista' for both features:
In German it's 'Listenansicht' for both features:
In Italian it's 'Vista elenco' and 'Visualizzazione in modalità elenco':
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