Hmm, our users seem not to notice Algolia search box

[bahmutov]

@bahmutov commented on Tue Mar 20 2018

I watched a power user learning Cypress and using it to write E2E tests and he has NOT used our search box - that was very interesting and unexpected. We should call attention to the search box, maybe with color or placeholder text to let users know they can find everything quickly there

Video for anyone interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8liCoPsDIU

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@jennifer-shehane commented on Tue Mar 20 2018

Isn't this an issue in cypress-documentation?

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@bahmutov commented on Tue Mar 20 2018

Yeah true! Will move

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Isn't this an issue in cypress-documentation?

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[richdouglasevans]

Huh, I don't use it either 😳I'll start.

On a related note is takes 8 presses of the TAB key to focus the search box. (In Chrome: the tab index seems all out of whack on Safari.) There's explicit :focus styling in the current theme to remove the focus styling with the result that the user can't visually see which element has the focus.

Adding explicit focus styling so that it "pops" when focused might help. So too might adding a wee tooltip that eagerly pops up... but that might be too intrusive if not toggled off with a cookie.

I'll have a play around.