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Nomcom AD accept/decline status is not visible on the screen #7894

Open kivinen opened 1 month ago

kivinen commented 1 month ago

Describe the issue

I got nomination for position for AD but when I click the link in email I get page which does not tell whether I am accepting or declining the nomination. The URL does have ../accepted/.. or ../declined/.. part but the status which I am saving is not visible on the web page itself.

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kivinen commented 1 month ago

When I actually click on the save it will save that my nomination on XXX AD has been set as YYY, but this information should also be visible on the previous page.

rjsparks commented 1 month ago

I think it's there?

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Maybe the colored box above the H1 makes it look like "ignore this" and it needs to move to text directly on the form and not part of (what looks like) a use of the messaging framework?

jennifer-richards commented 1 month ago

Maybe the colored box above the H1 makes it look like "ignore this" and it needs to move to text directly on the form

100% this - I even looked at the screenshot to see if it had it and missed it. The instinct to ignore text in colored boxes is strong.

A heading/title of "Accept nomination" or "Decline nomination" might be appropriate. The "Save" button could also perhaps change to indicate what specific action it will take, though I don't know how that rates for usability.

kivinen commented 1 month ago

I noticed the colored text, and did read it, but I guess as the AD title is so long, I jumped too much forward and missed the Declined text. Perhaps also Save button itself should be "Decline" instead of save. Also if the text is in blue box is changed to say "To decline the nomination to ... press save" then it would be much easier to see which operation you are doing. As I was cut & pasting the link from the text only email while undoing the quoted printable conversions on the link on the fly, I was not completely sure I picked the correct link which of course also caused me to be unsure what operation it was doing.

rjsparks commented 1 month ago

I like changing the button text to match the actions verb. We may also want to consider adding links to the page along the lines of "Oh no - I really meant to accept".