Alternate Responsive Text - less is more on mobile #22090
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What problem is your feature request going to solve? Please describe.
I find that when I build a website for a client, I can have a verbose experience in text on a desktop / laptop view, but when in tablet / mobile, the text that was once digestible is now seemingly Dostoevskian.
This is just a perception thing, of course - the text is exactly the same. But when making mobile optimizations to the site, I wish there was a selector to enable 'Alternate Responsive Text' for the text widget / heading widget / icon box widget / etc - anywhere you would put more than a few words. This switch would expand a new text entry field with the corresponding Tablet / Mobile icons denoting when they would appear. If there is no text entered in these, then the visitor would receive the text that is one step up on the responsive tree... (for example, if there is no mobile alternative text, but there is for tablet then a mobile visitor would see the tablet text.)
I will often duplicate the section and make it mobile only view and then edit the text down in this version - a clunky work around to this problem.
But if there were 'Alternate Responsive Text' entered on a widget it would lead to a quicker, leaner, more direct, and adaptable build. This way on a desktop / laptop one could be wordy when a visitor may have more patience to engage longer content, then when on a mobile, the text could be manually boiled down for shorter attention spans of mobile viewers.
Thx!
Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to see a toggle for all widgets that have a text element greater than a word or two (text, heading, icon box, etc) next to the text entry fields. They would be labeled: "Alternative Text (tablet icon)" and "Alternative Text (mobile icon)
This toggle, when activated, would expand the widget controls giving the user an additional text field depending on the toggle(s) enabled.
The user can enter alternative, summarized text in these fields for visitors to see depending upon the device they are using.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I will often duplicate the section and make it mobile only view and then edit the text down in this version - a clunky work around to this problem.
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