Migrating an existing site to Gutenberg, day 3, first note: This is a long one.
John figured out that you can right-click on the button on the Bitnami page and download your preferred app installation package that way. I looked at the source code for the page and the reason the links for downloads present as buttons is because of this gem:
<a class="indirect_download_link " style="outline: none; display: none !important" role="button" data-target="#downloadFileModal-1013270" data-toggle="modal" href="/redirect/to/1013270/bitnami-wordpress-5.4.1-0-module-linux-x64-installer.run">Linux </ a>
</a>
Somebody needs to have a talk with the Bitnami people about their Aria flare, because they’ve given the links the role of button, which There are some free WordCamp talks on how to use ARIA properly as well as on how roles work, and plenty of articles written by accessibility experts on ARIA roles and on top of that some courses.
Admittedly I didn’t think to try the right-click-on-the-button trick yesterday when I was fighting with it because I still haven’t managed to wrap my brain around the why of the stupid developer trick of changing the role of a perfectly-working anchor element via ARIA when if you really wanted the thing to be a button you could have made an actual button or even styled the thing to look like a button while still making sure it actually works.
But OK, on to the other bits.
Download the file, and then press enter on it once Xampp is running, and this is where things got weirder.
john got the fields filled in for the Bitnami script, (or at least he thought he did), and got the WordPress installation up and running, only to find that he couldn’t log in and couldn’t reset username and password because the email entry apparently didn’t take.
He fought with it for something like thirty minutes using various bits of Jaws magic, and then finally decided to wait to get the assistance of a sighted person to figure out where things went sideways.
I’ve decided to skip the whole thing and just do a manual install, which I will get to tomorrow. I’m not interested with putting more time into a script for a quicker install than an actual manual install would take.
If John can figure out what the problem is then we’ll write the whole thing up and publish it as a tutorial for those who use screen readers and don’t want to do manual WordPress installs. I’m of the opinion that this is merely putting off the inevitable because when it comes to installing various javascript tools for development or PHP or whatever the command line will become unavoidable, but we’ll offer the option.
Migrating an existing site to Gutenberg, day 2, second note. I got Xampp running, and am attempting to use Bitnami to install WordPress. The Bitnami page runs better in NVDA than it does in Jaws, but the download still won’t start, so we’ll be installing this manually.
I’m going to download all the necessary stuff so that John can avoid the surprise of trying to use Bitnami with Jaws and Firefox.
You can’t tab through the page, and updating the virtual buffer is a no-go.
Even in NVDA, once you select a download, you can’t tab through the page.
Might have to see if there’s another way to do this.
Migrating an existing site to Gutenberg, day 2, first note:
This is day 2 because I ended up not working on this on Thursday and Friday of last week. I’m back at it today though.
And today’s first task: Fighting with Xampp on Windows.
I was thinking about attempting this with Desktop Server since it’s already installed, but since we’re doing the Gutenberg thing may as well do it properly with no shortcuts.
So far I have it installed but am having difficulty getting it running, (user account control appears to be the bane of my existence), but will keep trying and hopefully will have something to say once it’s running properly.
Next is installing all the tools.
Migrating an existing site to Gutenberg, day 1, first note: I’m trying to catch up on the latest with what’s going on regarding Gutenberg, and I can’t help but notice all the noise.
This could be a function of my social media curation, or it could be a function of there really being a lot of noise out there, or it could be a little bit of both.
I’m going to see if I can find some sort of roadmap, although I may need to create one myself.
One final note for this evening.
I’m trying to get John to agree to participate in screen share recordings via Zoom of this process. I figure if we’re doing this whole migration thing, and it’s his idea, he can participate in the work.
I also told him that this is the fluffy bunny stuff he has to do for marketing.
I think he’s still in get-off-my-lawn mode but I’m sure he’ll come around.
First thing’s first. Let’s find some books.
I have a few on React, but I want to make sure there are some absolute beginner resources. So I load yee old QRead, and
I have to re-enter Bookshare credentials because, (on this computer), books stored in QRead periodically get wiped along with credentials.
This is annoying, but I’m used to is, so I’ll get those re-entered and then search Bookshare for appropriate books.