SonarQube Announcement Message may limit users with ADA Alternative Browsers

[kirkpabk (Brian Kirkpatrick)]

Sonarqube - recent versions with Announcement Message

Good feature, we use it a bunch. However, having problems with tooling supporting Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We need to be able to show the entire message. We cannot seem to enter new lines. Does a feature exist or could we add a feature for markup syntax (e.g., markdown or limited html) to enable “safe” structuring of the announcement message?

This would help a bunch of our users who use our systems which require alternative browser technologies.

[Wouter_Admiraal]

Hi @kirkpabk ,

Thanks for reporting this.

@kirkpabk

We need to be able to show the entire message.

I’m guessing you are referring to the fact the message is truncated to the right (showing an ellipsis), correct? If so, I’ve just opened a ticket to fix this. You can track it here: SONAR-20692

If this is not the issue, however, could you elaborate a bit further?

@kirkpabk

We cannot seem to enter new lines. Does a feature exist or could we add a feature for markup syntax (e.g., markdown or limited html) to enable “safe” structuring of the announcement message?

This is not supported yet, and not yet on our roadmap. Could you elaborate a little on why you would need more markup features?

[IamGuna (Gunasekaran Subramanian)]

I do have the same concern. If I want to give an FAQ link in the announcement banner, with the markdown/html ability, we can easily achieve it via <a href='www.my-faq.org.net' target='_blank'>FAQ</a>. Since the capability is not available, the URL is available as a plain text.

[Wouter_Admiraal]

Thanks for the extra info.

What I’ve done is track this as a feature request to add support for some basic markup in the system announcement messages. From here, it will be evaluated by Product Managers and might make it to the product.