[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18090: New "down" arrows on left nav are not sized right

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#18090: New "down" arrows on left nav are not sized right
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 Reporter:  dbonneville  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  UI           |    Version:  3.2
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
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 The left and right hit target areas of the updated "down" or "open" arrows
 on the left menu titles are too small. The area to the right is partially
 taken by the new shadow. The active area of the button is not reflected in
 the actual graphic.

 It would be best to either increase the hit area or redesign the graphic
 to indicate the difference between hitting the arrow and hitting the blank
 area of the bar, which serves as another kind of link (the one that
 reloads the page).

 The blank area of the bar activates as soon as you are off of the little
 arrow, but well before you get to any of the text. It's not clear when or
 why or where the change from arrow hit area to text hit area occurs.

 This is an ambiguous affordance.

 The text should remain the target, or a clearly defined button area, but
 not an ambiguous area that has no delineation between the end of the
 invisible text area and the arrow.

 Also, the arrow appears when hovering over a bar you are currently not
 viewing, but clicking it when you see it either reloads the page or drops
 down the javascript windowshade to reveal the submenu without reloading.
 Again, there are too many ambiguous affordances going on here. A clear
 graphical indicator to show you are going to expand the menu open what the
 arrow suggests) is due here.

 There are many ways to solve this design issue, too many to suggest, but
 even a cursory look at this should give the responsible parties some ideas
 on how to clarify it. Any increased clarity is better than what is there
 now.

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