Bug report: Missing close button in 7.9.X

Hi @karlemilnikka, I appreciate you highlighting this.

I’m unable to confirm whether the ‘X’ in the top-right is the the only intended close method to this prompt now, although I appreciate many of our modal pop-ups utilize buttons in the footer section too. I’ve forwarded your observation to the development team, which will be discussed and acted upon if necessary. I’m unable to provide ongoing updates here on the forums, but if action is taken you may see it noted after a future plugin update.

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Thanks,
Peter.

Hi @wfpeter.

Thank you very much. If they wonder why I miss the old button, it’s for accessibility reasons.

Best regards
Karl Emil Nikka

This is just a quick update to confirm that the accessibility issue, introduced in Wordfence 7.9.0, persists in Wordfence 7.9.2. It wasn’t supposed to be addressed with the update according to the changelog. This comment is just to inform bypassing readers.

This is just a quick update to confirm that the accessibility issue, introduced in Wordfence 7.9.0, persists in Wordfence 7.9.3. It wasn’t supposed to be addressed with the update according to the changelog. This comment is just to inform bypassing readers.

This is just a quick update to confirm that the accessibility issue, introduced in Wordfence 7.9.0, persists in Wordfence 7.10.0. It wasn’t supposed to be addressed with the update according to the changelog. This comment is just to inform bypassing readers.

Hi @karlemilnikka,

This dialog box has an “X” in the corner that allows you to close the window. Due to a font issue, this “X” was missing in that release, and we fixed that, so we didn’t find it necessary to also add a redundant button with the word “Close” on it.

But later, you called it an accessibility issue — do you mean that the “X” in the corner is not visible or can’t be reached by the keyboard for some users? If so, we can add the “Close” button back.

-Matt R, Wordfence QA Lead

@wfmattr Thanks for the reply. The older version, with a regular button, was much better from an accessibility perspective. If you prefer the new X solution, please add an aria-label to that it can be detected with accessibility tools.

Note that this change was not included in today’s plugin release, as it was already in development at the time. We’ll be scheduling this soon, but I’m not sure if it will be in the next small release or not yet.

-Matt R, Wordfence QA Lead

@wfmattr Thanks for the update.

This accessibility issue is resolved in Wordfence version 7.10.5, released 2023-10-23. It took seven months, but I’m very happy it’s fixed. Thank you.

Marked as resolved.