We weren't showing the details of answers without a description, even if
they had images, videos or documents. Some users found that behavior
unexpected since the description isn't a mandatory field and so they
left it blank, but they added images to that answer and they didn't
appear on the poll page.
Note we had a condition not to show the title of an answer when it had
no description. I think that condition was redundant because answers
without a description weren't loaded in the first place. Anyway, that
condition doesn't make sense anymore because we're displaying answers
with images but no description.
It could be argued that seeing which proposals a user follows is a good
indicator of which proposals a user has supported, since we're
automatically creating follows for supported proposals since commit
74fbde09f. So now, we're extending the `public_interests` funcionality,
so it only shows elements users are following if they've enabled it.
This is an improvement over using the `public_activity` attribute in two
ways:
* The `public_interests` attribute is disabled by default, so by default
other users won't be able to see what a user is following
* Who has created proposals/debates/investments/comments is public
information, while who is following which elements is not; so enabling
`public_activity` shouldn't imply potentially private information should
be displayed as well
We've considered removing the `public_interests` attribute completely
and just hiding the "following" page for everyone except its owner, but
keeping it provides more compatibility with existing installations.
These fields have no label associated to them. While it's more or less
obvious for sighted users that these fields are associated with the
table cell next to them, visually impaired users might not get that
association when using the screen reader in forms mode.
Note we're using `aria-label` instead of `aria-labelledby`. IMHO in this
case `aria-labelledby` is the superior method because it guarantees the
text is present for both sighted and visually impaired users. However,
testing for fields with no label other than the one provided by
`aria-labelledby` is hard since Capybara has no support for this
attribute.
So we're using `aria-label` and testing the presence of the text on the
page (with the `within "tr", text:` statements) as well as the ARIA
label (with the `fill_in` statements).
Having to wait for a whole page refresh after updating each setting was
painful when modifying several settings.
Even though the navigation is updated immediately to reflect which
sections have been enabled/disabled, there's one gotcha. Changing the
"SDG" setting will not update the user menu (which contains a link to
SDG content) nor the "SDG Configuration" tab; refreshing the page will
be necessary to check these changes. The same happens with the map and
remote census tabs. So in these cases we're making an exception and
sending the form. We might find a better solution in the future.
For this reason, we aren't using the `switch` ARIA role. Some users
might not expect a switch control to refresh the page, just like they
usually don't expect checkboxes to refresh the page. Furthermore, screen
reader support for the `switch` role seems to be inconsistent. For
instance, NVDA with Chrome announces the control as a checkbox instead
of a switch.
Note AJAX is only used for feature settings. Other settings are still
updated with regular HTTP requests.
Since we're now using AJAX requests, we have to make sure to add an
expectation in the homepage tests in order to make sure the request has
finished before starting a new one.
We were using buttons with the "Enable" and "Disable" texts to
enable/disable settings. However, when machine learning settings were
introduced in commit 4d27bbeba, a switch control was introduced to
enable/disable them.
In order to keep the interface consistent, we're now using switch
controls in other sections where settings are enabled/disabled. We can
even use the same code in the machine learning settings as well.
We're also removing the confirmation dialog to enable/disable a setting,
since the dialog is really annoying when changing several settings and
this action can be undone immediately. The only setting which might need
a confirmation is the "Skip user verification" one; we might add it in
the future. Removing the confirmation here doesn't make things worse,
though; the "Are you sure?" confirmation dialog was also pretty useless
and users would most likely blindly accept it.
Note Capybara doesn't support finding a button by its `aria-labelledby`
atrribute. Ideally we'd write `click_button "Participatory budgeting"`
instead of `click_button "Yes"`, since from the user's point of view the
"Yes" or "No" texts aren't button labels but indicators of the status of
the setting. This makes the code a little brittle since tests would pass
even if the element referenced by `aria-labelledby` didn't exist.
There were duplicate IDs and the `lines` attribute doesn't do anything
for textareas (I guess it was accidentally used instead of the `rows`
attribute; I'm just removing it so the page looks the same way it did
until now).
Even though the `value` field didn't generate duplicate IDs, we're also
changing it because we usually set an element with the `dom_id` of a
record when it contains the whole information about a record, and not
just one piece of it. For instance, in some places we assign this ID to
the table row related to the record.
This way it will be easier to change the behavior of all table actions,
like adding ARIA attributes. In the past, when we changed the behavior
of the `link_to` method, we had to change all table action classes.
There were no elements matching this selector since commit d679c1eb7 and
these styles were completely ignored. I'm re-adding the ones with make
sense in my humble opinion. I'm not adding top and bottom paddings since
they affect the way the height of the element is calculated, and am not
sure about the intention behind setting the height property.
The "Sign in" or "My account" links and the main navigation are
different elements, and they're in different places on medium and large
screens. Now we're also separating them on small screens.
Since the `.vertical` class in the menu added quite a few styles and it
was difficult to overwrite them, we're simply removing this class from
this element. This way we're also removing the huge space between the
menu button and the first element of the navigation.
In commit 55c3c7987 we updated the admin layout header to use
`class="dropdown menu" data-dropdown-menu` instead of `class="menu"
data-responsive-menu="medium-dropdown"`.
Then, in commit dcec003d0, we updated the public layout header to use
`class="menu" data-responsive-menu="medium-dropdown"` instead of
`class="dropdown menu" data-dropdown-menu`.
Now we're applying the same classes to both, hoping we can get some
consistent styles.
I'm choosing to keep the ones in the public layout because using it I
had less problems when trying to improve the styles of this navigation.
This way, when the language is written form right-to-left, elements
using Foundation mixins/classes will float to the opposite direction as
they do in left-to-right languages. The same will apply to text
alignment.
To offer full support for RTL languages, we need to change every single
reference to `float: left`, `float: right`, `text-align: left`,
`text-align: right`, and possible adjust other properties like `left`,
`margin-left`, `padding-left` or `border-left`. In the meantime, we at
least partially support these languages.
Replacing `float` with `flex` when possible would also improve RTL
support.
This way the code is easier to follow; the code checking whether the
list has contents is in the partial rendering the list.
We also remove some duplication setting up related content in the
controllers.
For some reason, we have to manually ignore i18n keys which were
automatically ignored when the code was in the view.
When render the investment list component with the link "see all
investments", now we redirect to groups index page when a budget has
multiple headings.
The budget header was supposed to be huge, but only in the participatory
budgets index or show actions. It was still huge, with plenty of empty
space, when there was no budget, or in the "submit my ballot" and
"select a heading" pages.
The imageable/documentable object is always the object the form builder
is based on; since we're already passing the form builder, we don't have
to pass the object as well.
The only exception are the poll answers. In this case, we're passing a
new answer as the object. That's OK; the same hack that we're using to
send the data to the answer URL without displaying existing attachments
causes the form to keep working the same way.
In commit 49b406199 we added an extra `<span>` element just so we could
add an icon to the right while maintaining both the title and subtitle
on the left.
We can do the same thing without the extra `<span>` element, absolutely
positioning the element and leaving enough padding.
We had an additional `<div>` just to add a background color, when we can
do it by applying the background color to the whole `<main>` element and
then the body background color to the optional fields.
However, I've decided not to do so. The main purpose of changing the
background color is to highlight the required fields. The benefits of
changing the background color of the header as well are unclear. When in
doubt, we're using the solution which requires less code.
Now the padding is only applied in two places (administration forms) so
we can apply it just there instead of applying it everywhere and then
removing it in most places. We're using the `column` class here because
it's what's used in the rest of the fields of these forms and because we
haven't defined (yet) general margin/padding rules for the
administration views.
