Patterns for translations (accessible-name) of a repeating widget in a ListBox
Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:24:58 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.internationalization.general,gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general |
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Hi everyone, in Calls[1] we have a listbox for the call history with a call button which (when pressed) calls the party of the particular row in the listbox. Now the question has come up recently [2] about how to make it obvious that the call button belongs to the the current list box row. The button in question has an accessible name of "Call the party" currently and one idea was to put some context into the string f.e. "Call %s" (-> "Call Evangelos"), but that would not work in every language. So I have two questions: 1. Would a "Call the party" or simply "Call" be clear enough that it's about the current row in the list box? (Accessibility wise) 2. If not, how could it be made clearer that a button belongs to it's list row. Are there already patterns for situations like this? [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/merge_requests/391 -- Evangelos PGP: B938 6554 B7DD 266B CB8E 29A9 90F0 C9B1 8A6B 4A19