Today in the Nightly: Site icons in the customizer, editor patterns, more accessible comment bubbles, row toggle focus styling

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Site Icons in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.

I’ve long wanted site icons in the customizer alongside site title and tagline. The identity information that I always want to edit when first setting up a site are now all together in the customizer.

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For more visuals, see these visual records.

See #16434.

Editor Patterns

Create bulleted lists, ordered lists, and blockquotes using markdown like patterns. I find this particularly handy on phones when the editor toolbar is offscreen.

See #31441.

Better focus styling for list table row toggles

See #32395.

Better accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and design for the comments bubble

The comments columns in our list tables were among the most confusing for screen reader users. Accessibility and visuals are now improved.

See #32152.

Eliminate content overruns on small screens

An audit of content overruns on small screens resulted in many fixes.

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See #32846.

Styling improvements on small screens for Right Now in the networknetwork (versus site, blog) adminadmin (and super admin)

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See #32962.

Improved headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. information in Network Admin Edit Site tabs

Use the site’s name rather than URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org in the Edit Site header.
Provide “Visit” and “Dashboard” links for the site on all tabs.

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See #32525.

Disambiguate “Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu”

In the customizer, a menu’s auto-add pages option is now separated from the preceding menu location checkboxes.

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See #32820.

Passwords UIUI User interface Improvements

Passwords received a couple of improvements. The show/hide toggles look better, and passwords ui is on the install screen. Passwords on the install screen still needs a little more flow work.