1112232 - Find in page search: It is not obvious that the case insensitivity button enables insensitivity

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Firefox for Android Nightly 2014-12-16

The icon to disable case sensitivity in the "Find in page" search is "Aa" but that is not obvious that it's about enabling insensitivity. Most products have a checkbox style control item to enable case _sensitivity_ (feels like the standard). The red color of the text while enabled is designed to help on this. Please also be aware of colorblind people.

Comment 1

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

Can you provide screens of Android browser products that use a checkbox? I just checked out Chrome, Dolphin, and CM Browser and they don't offer case preference at all. In most cases, Red means disabled/off.

Comment 2

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

I will look into an alternate visual indication for visually impaired.

Comment 3

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Sorry, I hadn't compare this to Android apps but to Firefox Desktop (which has the text as a button) and other desktop programs which let you search text.

Comment 4

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

Desktop affords a lot more space. This is an Android bug so let's keep it to that. Mobile doesn't always offer parity with Desktop.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This is less about removing the feature and more about making it clear what it does. It needs to be translatable in that space which it may not be. The shock of red for the disabled state seems an odd choice. First it draws attention to a rather low importance option. Second red/green colorblindness is the most common form of colorblindness affecting 8% of people of European decent.

Comment 6

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

Attachment: deuteranopia .png

I'm attaching what I used to initially determine that using the red wasn't a huge issue for those with deuteranopia. It's not the best solution, since the user may not be sure what's on/off, but there is still a perceivable difference between the two states. Again, I'm happy to revisit.

Comment 7

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Proposal from triage: let's disable this on post-Nightly until we get this in shipping shape. Concur, Robin?

Comment 8

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

Sounds good.

Comment 9

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

fwiw: I think we decided in bug 1050480 that the color signal was ok, as chrome uses red in their Find in page status box to indicate "No match"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vv3oek5qrj4etzj/bug1112232.png?dl=0

This was thought better that the original version, where I used an ugly icon I created to indicate "Match case off"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v116an02cgif2xd/bug1050480_matchCaseOff.png?dl=0

Maybe something similar? A gray |Aa| with a gray |/| (strike-thru) line (vs the big red circle) ?

Comment 10

[:Margaret Leibovic]

This doesn't need to track 36 anymore because bug 1113296 restricted this feature to Nightly.

Comment 11

[:Margaret Leibovic]

We decided to back this feature out in bug 1113297.

We're going to start over with the UX here in bug 1242583.