Confirmed Seeking a profile post comment should result in visibility of the comment after following the link to the comment

[grahamperrin]

Affected version

2.2.7 Patch 1

For example, in response to <https://forums.freebsd.org/search/235101/?q=ZFS+god+send&c[users]=Beastie7&o=date>:



– with reference to <https://forums.freebsd.org/members/astyle.67639/#profile-post-3241>, where the comment is invisible:



– for the comment to become visible, it's necessary to view previous comments.

Can the UX be improved, to make the comment visible by default in situations such as this?

Thanks

 

[grahamperrin]

Not expecting support for lynx, however the tail end of the UX outlined below might help to shape thoughts on how to resolve this bug in a truly accessible way.

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At the initial not logged in (NLI) view of <https://forums.freebsd.org/profile-posts/comments/6137/>, navigation to Log in (top right) was impossible:



Opt to View previous comments...



No previous comment is shown:



Some way down, previous comments become visible however unless I'm missing something there's no link to subsequent comments:



– it appears that the foot of the page has been reached, and a viewer might reasonably expect the most recent comments to be not far from the foot, however (compared with the GUI below) the three most recent comments are effectively invisible.