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I agree that “Add Accordion Item” might feel too long, but “Add” is way too short and ambiguous. On the extreme case, imagine being on a screen reader: “Add” is completely confusing.

The new Tabs block uses “Add tab”, and I think that should be the direction. I didn't know about the gallery, and I was just about to go test it to see what it does, when it literally dawned to me: even in this conversation, as I haven't used the Gallery block too much, I have no clue what “Add” might do. Does it add an image to the gallery, or a gallery, or a section?

Especially because, as you mention, the toolbar can be extended, “Add” is even more pernicious: any developer could insert an “Add” button, so you wouldn't really know what it does and if that's specific to the current Accordion block, or is something that gets inserted in all toolbars.

“Add tab” has the luck of being short in the English language. But “Add Accordion Item” in Chinese would be 新增折叠项 (“Add tab” would be 新增标签页, same length). So, while I symphatize with it, I feel that using the length argument is also needlessly anglo-centric: in any label in our UI, we can never predict how long it would be in all languages.

With that said, I would say that at the very least we should go for “Add item”, or “Add section”.

Thanks for the ping. I agree with both of you, but we have to choose between tradeoffs:

• Do we remain consistent with other nesting containers and their "Add" actions, and account for mobile?
• Do we break consistency for clarity and risk the toolbar getting cropped on mobile?

I want to not have strong opinions on which of the above two we choose, but possibly a middleground would be "Add item" or "Add section" as noted (note, sentence case).

And thank you for contributing!

Thank you for the feedback! Let's change it to Add item. Following this, we should probably also change Add image in the Gallery block's toolbar.

If possible, let's merge and backport this PR before RC1, when string freezing will start.

Let's change it to Add item. Following this, we should probably also change Add image in the Gallery block's toolbar.

+1 to this! Thanks all 🙇

I just cherry-picked this PR to the wp/6.9 branch to get it included in the next release: 640fcf4