[Bug]: The filtering options in the add-on manager are not clear or plain language (e.g. ‘Badging’ reads like jargon; the difference between ‘Recommended’ and ‘Verified’ is not clear)

[willdurand]

What happened?

From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1904936

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Heuristic violation: 2.4 The filtering options in the add-on manager are not clear or plain language (e.g. ‘Badging’ reads like jargon; the difference between ‘Recommended’ and ‘Verified’ is not clear).

Severity: Medium

This bug was reported in the "Fx Desktop Core Browsing - Heuristic Evaluation Q2 2024":

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R2N6C-NwRd9Plwp1SfzZyqxSSoP-4tk9dQuGnKr90KA/edit#heading=h.q4u4oi971cyw

What did you expect to happen?

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Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the existing issues

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

[diox]

Screenshot: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=9409759

[diox]

Alan to create an epic/theme for redesign-related backlog issues to sort that out

[abyrne-moz]

Badging refers to the addition of a badge to the add-on.

[abyrne-moz]

Created https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/14926 to remove the Verified filter option.

[diox]

Note that All Reviewed option is also misleading: it actually means All Badged, i.e. By Firefox and Recommended. Notable add-ons, which are all pre-reviewed, are not included as they don't have a badge, by design.