RC Spot Check: Molecules and Light 1.5.0-rc.3

[jessegreenberg]

@KatieWoe, @ariel-phet, @emily-phet, @terracoda @Matthew-Moore240 molecules-and-light/1.5.0-rc.3 is ready for an RC spot check. Please document issues in https://github.com/phetsims/molecules-and-light issues and link to this issue.

This build comes right after rc.2 in #513. Only a few issues needed to be addressed and changes for each were minimal. A full RC is not necessary, but a spot check for each issues and overall test to make sure that things generally look OK would be helpful.

Simulation Links

• iFrame
• XHTML
• Legends of Learning Harness
• a11y View
• Simulation

Issues to Verify

• Xhtml file does not support zoom
• Verify that movement during arrow keys and mouse wheel look good
• Alt+k and Alt+l work when dialog is open or not using keyboard nav
• Zoom commands on radio buttons

Finally, please make sure that global hotkeys and hotkeys for zoom commands work as expected on a number of different platforms as that was the common area for each of the above issues. Otherwise, the sim was unchanged.

Assigning to @ariel-phet to provide priority for this issue.

[KatieWoe]

• Win 10 chrome w/ Jaws
• Win 10 firefox w/ NVDA
• Win 10 edge

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• macOS 10.15 Chrome
• macOS 10.15 Safari w/ VoiceOver

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• Mac 10.12 Safari

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• ChromeOS
• iPadOS 13 w/ VO

[KatieWoe]

@jessegreenberg are these platforms ok?

[jessegreenberg]

Can we change Win 10 IE to Win 10 Edge? Otherwise this looks great.

[jessegreenberg]

I reviewed the list of blocks-publication issues as of today and phetsims/query-string-machine#42 is the only one that would potentially impact this release.

@kathy-phet @ariel-phet can you please comment on whether that issue should block the release of this sim? Should the ?screens query parameter have a graceful warning if the value is invalid for single screen sims?

[jessegreenberg]

Over slack @kathy-phet said

I don't think anything about the ?screens parameter should block MAL publication.

[ariel-phet]

Concurrent top priority with #514 and #515 (particularly since a spot check)

@jessegreenberg might want to consider cherrypicking the fix in: phetsims/joist#645

[jessegreenberg]

In phetsims/joist#645 I decided not to cherry-pick changes for that issue because MAL is a single screen sim and does not display the home screen.

[KatieWoe]

QA is done.

[jessegreenberg]

OK thank you @KatieWoe and team - we are ready for deploy-production and this issue can be closed.