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[Aaron Wells <1381719@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dirk,

Good point. The help icon we're referring to is way up next to the "Edit
access" page title, nowhere near where we tell the user "Click the help
icon". It also has a lowercase "i" on it instead of the word "help" or a
question mark. If I were to look at it, I would assume the "i" is for
"information" and call it an "information icon" rather than a "help
icon".

So our options are:

1. BEST: Put a link there that will expand the help text as if you'd
clicked on the help icon. I'm not sure at first glance whether our help
icon code really robustly supports that, though.

2. GOOD: Change the text to give the user a better clue what they're
looking for. BUT with some caveats! For accessibility, the text has to
make sense to screen-reader users (the current text more or less does,
because the icon has the title attribute "Help"). And we can't say "the
button with the i on it" because the button's appearance may change
depending on the theme. Perhaps something like "the help icon next to
the 'Edit access' page title".

3. NOT AS GOOD: Just delete the line about clicking the help icon
entirely. It's a common thing throughout Mahara that clicking one of
those things provides information.

Those are things to fix this message for Mahara 1.10.0.

In the longer run... I'd say that for this page, we should get rid of
the help paragraph entirely. Probably no one is reading it. Replace it
with a more prominent "Help!" link. And maybe, if a page is not yet
shared with anyone, a notice that says "This page is not yet visible to
anybody".

Also, we should get rid of that "shall" in the sentence, "On this page
you decide who shall have access to them besides you." It doesn't read
well to my American-English eyes, so it'd be an easy win to replace it
with something more internationally acceptable.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1381719

Title:
  Help icon hard to find

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I was unable to spot the help icon easily. Could we alter the text or
  change help icon and make more visible?

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