terra-dropdown-button UX Audit

[ryanthemanuel]

terra-dropdown-button

Known Aliases

Document any known aliases of the component, decide if another name makes more sense.

• Has known aliases
• Requires name change

Design Standard Doc

Any documentation needed to be added to terra-ui describing the make up and usage of the component
Any doc examples that need to be updated?

• Missing design standard documentation linkage.

Guides

Any guides needed to be added to terra-ui describing the usage of this component when used with other components.

• Missing Guides
• Missing UX recommended Usage.
  • We need a good guide for when you use a drop down button vs. when you use a split button
• Deprecation guide

Accessibility Guides

• Missing Accessibility Guides

Behaviours

• Missing behaviours
• Contains bad practice behaviours that should be removed
  • May need to validate whether or not the block drop down button makes sense
  • Evaluate whether ghost is needed

Accessibility

• Meets wcag 2.0/section 508 standards
  • Does not read the thing that was selected when something is selected
  • May be some additional nuances that we need to work through
  • Split button needs to have its keyboard navigability evaluated
  • Wording of the alt text for split button's caret could be reevaluated
• Meets wcag 2.1/en 301 549 standards

Deprecation

• Component is a bad pattern and should be deprecated.

Related Issues

Other Considerations