This task is about making it easier for people to reach the text formatting tools when drafting a comment with the Reply tool's `visual` mode on a wide screen.
=== Background
This issue surfaced in the mediawiki.org usability test we ran for Version 2.0 of the Reply tool (T246191). These quotes describe the issues people encountered:
- //"On a wide screen the styling buttons are quite far on the right edge from the area where my mouse is typically (above the text)."// | [source](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vmtco3nu7vnfmobq)
- //"I needed one big second to find where the style buttons were. I think they are too far to the right (on a large screen like mine)."// | [source](https://w.wiki/Sz6)
=== Approaches
- **Approach #1:** move the text tools to the side of the screen where people start typing [i]; move the text input mode tabs to the opposite side of the screen.
-- The order of the text tools should //not// be changed
-- The text tools that are presented within the toolbar should //not// be changed
-- The `visual` mode should be presented such that it is aligned with the position of the "Reply" button.
=== Open questions
- [ ] 1, Does changing the location of the text input tabs cause Junior Contributors to be less distracted by them?
-- //This question will be explored in T257281//
- [ ] 2. Does changing the location of the text tools make it easier for people using the Reply tool on wider screens to "reach" them?
=== Done
- [ ] "Approach #1" is implemented
- [ ] "Open questions" are answered
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i. Read: on the left side of the screen in left-to-right languages and on the right side of the screen for right-to-left languages.