Summary
Six things a person can see, fixed. The composer’s body was unnamed to a
screen reader, the app could not be installed from a phone, filled buttons lost
contrast when hovered, contact initials were hard to read, a Settings link was
too small to hit, and on hosts behind a long-caching CDN a bad cached file could
leave the More screen showing an error. Each edition also gets its own
translation template, and bundled translations return.
Added
- The app can be installed from a phone again. The web app manifest declared an
SVG, a 32×32 and a 180×180 icon, and neither size Android requires to offer an
install at all. It now ships 192×192 and 512×512, so a whitelabelled site and
the default branding can both be installed.
- The Free package ships its own translation template. One template served both
editions, so a Free translator was offered about 1,640 strings that no Free
site can render, from files the Free download does not contain.
- Bundled translations are back for the eight locales the interface ships in,
covering the core screens. WordPress.org language packs still load when
available.
Changed
- Filled buttons stay readable while you point at them. They used to lighten on
hover, which on a light label means losing contrast: the Compose button went
from 5.06:1 to 3.48:1, under the 4.5:1 floor, so it was least readable exactly
when it was being aimed at.
- Contact initials are legible. The avatar drew a saturated colour on a 16% tint
of itself, which across the eighteen flag colours ranged from 1.73:1 to
3.90:1 against the same 4.5:1 floor.
- The System Health card’s link to WordPress Site Health meets the 24px minimum
pointer target.
Fixed
- The message body has an accessible name. It was a contenteditable region with
no label, so a screen reader announced it as an unlabelled text box: the one
control every user types into was the only one in the product without a name.
- A stale cached copy of the application bundle can no longer break a screen. The
entry chunk had a fixed filename while a long-caching CDN was set to keep it,
so a browser could run the previous release’s bundle, ask for scripts that no
longer existed, and show a fetch error where the More screen should be.
- The bundled icons are served with a version, so redrawn artwork actually
reaches people.
- JavaScript translator notes reach translators; the extractor was discarding
them, so a string with a placeholder arrived with nothing explaining it.
- The free build no longer ships a stale copy of the interface: twenty-one
modules that nothing reached have been removed.
Upgrade Notes
- Nothing to do. Bundled translations return automatically, and where a
WordPress.org language pack exists for a locale the pack continues to take
precedence.
