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Peter's comment about VO made me remember something else: You *can* get to the text description by hovering over the button and having a tiny tooltip appear. Admittedly, this is a more minor benefit, but I think a nice thing.įunnily enough the HIG currently recommends giving both options: Having a document title is also a component of accessibility as it means users should be able to find what they're looking at from a consistent location, specifically top-center of the current window. Notably, Finder duplicates the document title between the Title Bar (note the name of that element). Most of these apps (like Notes or Safari) have their document titles elsewhere, either in a tab or some column of the interface.

That seems to be the extent of Apple’s guidance.Īccessibility Apple Mail Cocoa Design Esoteric Preferences Mac Mac App Store macOS 10.14 Mojave MarsEdit OmniFocus ReadKit Top Posts Jalkut Ah, you're right very good point! I would probably be content with "Icons only" and"Icons, Text, and a Document Title", though that's a mouthful. Users see these labels when they configure the toolbar to show icons and text, or text only. Provide a short, descriptive label for every toolbar item. Provide a title unless there’s enough context that one is unnecessary.

Update (): macOS Human Interface Guidelines:Ī title bar should be visible, but can be hidden in an immersive app like a game. I also think the problem is exacerbated by the current style where icons are just simple one-color hairline outlines objects, not colorful illustrations of actual objects. I think it’s a real accessibility issue, and another instance of something that looks better but, for at least some people, works worse. Simmons’ NetNewsWire is an app that doesn’t use a window title, but it does have a hidden preference to change that, and then you can enable the toolbar labels. At least with Safari - and the apps Michael mentions, and NetNewsWire - you can rearrange items to your liking, and choose the items you want to see. In fact, lots of Apple apps - and third-party apps - don’t even have configurable toolbars at all. However, the colored text can help show where you are, and it is visually consistent with the iOS app. It puts the titles in giant text below the title bar, so it actually leaves less room for the content than in the previous version that did allow toolbar labels. OmniFocus is not document-based, but it supports multiple named windows. I think this style is basically the new brushed metal-used haphazardly by Apple and therefore by third-party developers as well. Then again, Xcode supports multiple windows, and is document-based, yet it doesn’t allow window titles or button labels.

Automator, Preview, and Script Editor do, too, and are document-based.

The most obvious example is Finder, which allows button labels and is not document-based.

(The iWork apps are document-based, which means their windows need titles.) I’m trying to find Apple apps that allow for buttons and titles, and all I’ve found so far is Mail and the iWork apps. There’s a hugely important aspect to this: developers follow Apple’s lead when it comes to app design. I often find that VoiceOver is the only way to discover what a button with an inscrutable icon does.Īlso, these windows with no distinct title bar leave little space for me to click and drag the window, so I’m zooming way in to find a tiny grab spot. Hopefully this workaround will give those of you who either prefer, or outright depend upon the labels for accessibility reasons, something to tide you over. I’m not holding my breath on that, though. Ideally Apple would fix this mode so that some kind of appropriate compromise could be made to support the streamlined title-bar-free mode, while also supporting the display of labels.

And it’s been appearing in third-party apps like MarsEdit, OmniFocus, and ReadKit-a shame. However, if the window uses NSWindowTitleHidden to hide the title (another accessibility problem) and put the toolbar in the title bar, the toolbar gets locked in icon-only mode.Īt first, I thought this title-free design was intended for single-window apps, but Apple also uses it Safari and Xcode. This is an option in NSToolbar, which the app can set and the user can configure. I prefer to see both the icons and the text. This continues a depressing trend-Safari hasn’t had text labels available on its buttons for many years now.Īpple may have done this to save vertical space, which is ironic, as using “text only”-when available-takes the least amount of space possible. Thanks Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16 He can’t use Apple Mail anymore as Mail compose window removed the ability to show text labels with buttons. My Dad (90 yrs old) has developed cognitive issues, including the inability to reconcile symbols.

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