Contributions panel ("We welcome your ideas")

[shawna-slh]

The box at the bottom of the pages.

Draft idea for discussion:

We welcome your input.
Please send any ideas, suggestions, or comments via e-mail or GitHub.
[Fork & edit this page on GitHub] [Create new GitHub issue]
[Send e-mail to publicly-archived list: wai-eo-editors@w3.org]

(Let's figure out the default for this overall, and then can update it on other relevant pages: Tutorials, Easy Checks, etc.)

[bakkenb]

Just another title idea: "How can we make this page better? We welcome your input."

And change "send any" to "provide your" in the next line. Send is basically for email but is not correct terminology for GitHub: "Please provide your ideas, suggestions, or comments..."

[shawna-slh]

Agree to change "send any". Maybe "share"? "Please share your ideas, suggestions, or comments..."

[James-Green]

What about @bakkenb's first sentence - it's asking a direct question. We could follow it with a direct call to action like "Please let us know" and then just provide the choices? spelling out the choices in text before the choices seems redundant. Example:

How can we make this page better? Please let us know... [Fork & edit this page on GitHub] [Create new GitHub issue] [Send e-mail to publicly-archived list: wai-eo-editors@w3.org]

[LydiaHarkey]

'Please let us know' sounds friendly and gives the impression we care about their feedback. We could make the sentence more personal by using the word 'your'. ex. Please share your ideas, suggestions, or comments via email or GitHub.

[davidberman]

Perhaps eliminate the question structure altogether (always a good idea in an interface where there is no place to provide an answer), by replacing "How can we make this page better? Please let us know..." with "Tell us how to improve this page:"

[vmmiller]

How about a combination: "We welcome feedback. Please share with us your ideas, suggestions, or comments via email or GitHub."

[shawna-slh]

I think it would be good to present it with a tone & approach along the lines of: here's a resources that's started and we'd love your ideas/input on it, to help make it better -- rather than: this is done, give us your feedback/tell us how to improve it.

[sharronrush]

+1 to ...this is a start and we welcome your involvement and ideas

[AndrewArch]

+1 from me too to making it sound as though this is our draft and we welcome their input to polish it

[iadawn]

Contributors panel has been updated.

If there are still questions or concerns regardin thig, please do reopen the issue.

[shawna-slh]

[medium-high] I am still not comfortable with two buttons being gray and one being green. It make it look like the first two are disabled. (fyi, probably many, if not most, people using these pages will not have used GitHub.)

[shawna-slh]

[easy] There's still a typo in the pop-up for e-mail - in "archived"

[shawna-slh]

[medium-low] I'm not sure about the imperative "Help improve this page". Is it too demanding? Perhaps "You can help improve this page."

[iadawn]

I personally don't think the imperative is too demanding. I can't imagine anyone being offended, put off, or feeling like they are being forced. I like the strength of the statement.

Typo fixed.

Open to suggestions on styling for the buttons. I am keen to keep them as buttons as the consistency is good and they stand out well as calls to action. I was looking for alternative styling options within WAI, but couldn't find anything for buttons. The only thing I found was the styling in the new quick ref, but they are grey.

[shawna-slh]

Buttons: I like them as buttons -- just not that 2 are gray and 1 is green. Could just make them all gray for now.

[could save for later] On overview page, especially when there's only the first row of pages, the box stands out too much, I think. What about making the font smaller? and/or lighter? Also, on the overview page, I suggest more space before the box to separate it from the main page content.

[iadawn]

One thought I did have was to completely remove the contributions panel from the Overview page. I decided to keep it as this was the most likely point for someone to suggest completely new areas for tips.

[davidberman]

Regarding the imperative, we find in general that plan language editors embrace the imperative for when writing for the web.

Thank you for the fix,

David

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Kevin White notifications@github.com wrote:

I personally don't think the imperative is too demanding. I can't imagine anyone being offended, put off, or feeling like they are being forced. I like the strength of the statement.

Typo fixed.

Open to suggestions on styling for the buttons. I am keen to keep them as buttons as the consistency is good and they stand out well as calls to action. I was looking for alternative styling options within WAI, but couldn't find anything for buttons. The only thing I found was the styling in the new quick ref http://w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-quickref/, but they are grey.

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[iadawn]

Closed issue. Raised w3c/wai-website#747 to capture outstanding point.