[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #51006: Add a mechanism for accessible tooltips in core

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#51006: Add a mechanism for accessible tooltips in core
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 Reporter:  joedolson                |       Owner:  joedolson
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  6.8
Component:  General                  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  tooltips has-patch       |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility,
  needs-testing needs-unit-tests     |  javascript
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Comment (by swissspidy):

 A bit late to the party, but just saw the notification about this.

 Given that Gutenberg already maintains a tooltip component that could be
 easily used elsewhere in WordPress admin, it seems silly to me to maintain
 a completely separate implementation with a very different design and
 functionality. I think this is a real missed opportunity. I see that was
 mentioned before but never followed up on.

 If a second implementation is required in the short term for whatever
 reason, then this should be implemented in a way that the implementation
 could be easily swapped out later without backward compatibility concerns,
 for example by making this function private and not make it available to
 plugins.
 In such a case, I would also suggest looking at more modern web APIs that
 make tooltips implementations a breeze, such as Popover API and CSS anchor
 positioning. That means you can build accessible tooltips with basically
 zero JavaScript.

 Besides, I would strongly advocate for a different function name.
 `add_tooltip` is too close to `add_option` or `add_post_meta`. Why not
 `wp_print_tooltip` or something?

 But again, why not explore using the existing Gutenberg component first
 :-)

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