Improve reset password form title and page text

"Reset password" means "Passwort zurücksetzen". However, your point is valid, but it is simply not possible to translate the same string to two differing values. The english original needs to be changed.

I am sorry, you are right. This string is indeed only used in one single place: for the title of the page. There is a similar string ("Request new password"). I changed the string in CVS (download a -dev version of the translation).

This changes the page title from "Reset password" to "Change password".

I haven't checked the code but we should make sure that button/link-titles match page-titles.

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String freeze deadline has passed. Moving to 7.x.

Re-roll.

Moving to 8.x, as string freeze for 7.x has passed since longtime.

Re-roll patch from #13 for 8.x.

The patch in #16 does change the page title correctly but I think the password reset/change form could use some work which could be integrated into the same patch.

• The third sentence is redundant. The first sentence says "this is a one-time login" which is then followed by, in the third sentence, "this login can be used only once".
• The second sentence says "click on" which poorly describes what a user must do; the user may not be using a device which has a mouse such as a phone/tablet/touchscreen device or someone using only a keyboard (often people who have a visual impairment).
• The second sentence says "this button" but doesn't reference a button and isn't actually a button itself. This is an accessibility concern as a user would have to read until the end of the form to realize that the text was probably referring to the "Log in" button and the text "this button" wasn't just a broken link.
• As Dries mentioned about the button title, the button text doesn't make much sense in the content of the page. If a user is trying to log in for the first time and the page is titled something like "Set password" why are they given an action that supposedly allows them to login even though the email they followed to get to the page said that they needed to set their password before logging in "After setting your password, you will be able to log in"?

I also noticed that the email a user gets with the link to log in uses the following text:

This link can only be used once to log in and will lead you to a page where you can set your password.

Which might make them expect the page to be titled "Set password" as you can neither "change" nor "reset" a password that doesn't yet exist.

If you are assuming that the user has some common sense then why do you need to say "click on the button" at all? Since that's the only thing on the page, I'd assume that they would do it no matter what the page text says.

Thanks for the hint on $user->access, I'm still pretty new to Drupal development outside of theming.

I've attached a draft of how I think the page could read. If you think the existing page is better (more understandable, less user friendly, etc) I'd appreciate your feedback.

I'll see if anyone thinks that there should be some wording changes and then try to draft a patch.

I'm sure you can come up with a body text wording that will work for first-time logins as well as for password resets, so that we don't need to provide and maintain two different pages.

It really seems to me that the "Request new Password" and the "First time login link" should go to 2 different pages. Yes the functionality is the same, but the reason the user is viewing the page is totally different.

These two experiences are not the same:
A) User registers to the website and needs to login for the first time, and needs a password
B) User has already registered, set a password and forgot the password. Now the user needs a new password.

The current page text is fitting for use B, but not at all for A

Reset password

This is a one-time login for XXX and will expire on XXXX.
Click on this button to log in to the site and change your password.
This login can be used only once.

The word "Reset" implies that the password was already set. It has not been set. This is a poor use of English for this page.
Similarly, the command "change your password" implies that it is changing from a value that already exists. This is also false.

This makes the registration process unnecessarily confusing.

Honestly I think it's really weird that the "Reset password" page is presented during the new user registration process at all.

Let's say you are a user and you use your log in link -- what's the incentive to set a password now? What if you fail to do this? I've seen this failure result in confusion way too many times.

Why not give the new user a similar link that goes to a new "Set your password and login" page that presents a form where the user can create a new password in order to log in?

maybe I'm being overzealous but I'm gonna tag this as DrupalWTF because this is something that has been bothering me for years. I'm tired of explaining this to every client that ever takes over a drupal site from me.

This was addressed in #2297185: 'Reset password' should be 'Set password' when no password given yet. - the page is called 'Set password' for the first time login.

New user:

Existing user: