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[Bug] 404s, bad host, timeouts, bad urls for URLs linked from website #1478

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Roshanjossey opened this issue Oct 3, 2022 · 14 comments
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[Bug] 404s, bad host, timeouts, bad urls for URLs linked from website #1478

Roshanjossey opened this issue Oct 3, 2022 · 14 comments
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bug Problems with the project's functionality content Issues dealing with our published content. good first issue A small, good place to get started working with the site. help wanted Issues the team would like assistince with.

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Roshanjossey commented Oct 3, 2022 •
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Bug description

I checked links in the website with brokenlinkcheck.com and found the following links could potentially have problems

# URL link text response
1 https://jenniferbrownconsulting.com/inclusion-the-book/ Inclusion: Diversity The New Workplace & The Will 404
2 https://www.getstark.co/newsletter Stark 404
3 https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/everyday-accessibility/A11yProject.com/Resources The A11Y Project’s Resources Page 404
4 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-want-to-see-like-the-co/jebeedfnielkcjlcokhiobodkjjpbjia Landmarks 404
5 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nocoffee/jjeeggmbnhckmgdhmgdckeigabjfbddl NoCoffee 404
6 https://confrere.com/a11y/test/ Accessibility Tester 404
7 http://blindspot.fas.harvard.edu/Book Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People bad host
8 http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ Colorblind Web Page Filter bad host
9 https://hexnaw.com/ Hex Naw timeout
10 https://image-color.com/color-contrast.html Image-Color: Color Contrast Checker 404
11 http://www.karlgroves.com/blog/ Blog - Karl Groves 404
12 https://pragmaticaccess.com/articles/2019-05-30-pdf-accessibility-introduction PDF accessibility introduction bad host
13 https://www.funka.com/en/we-offer/funka-accessibility-days/ Funka Accessibility Days 404
14 https://www.meetup.com/a11yphl/ A11yPHL - Philly Accessibility Meetup 404
15 https://www.meetup.com/Munich-Accessibility-Meetup/ Munich Accessibility Meetup 404
16 https://www.meetup.com/Paris-Web-Accessibility/ Paris Web Accessibility 404
17 https://developer.yoast.com/accessibility-slow-down-development-process/ The a11y Monthly: Does Accessibility slow down the deve 404
18 https://usabilitygeek.com/information-different-types-people-graphic-communication-website-information-designers/ Information On Different Types Of People For Graphic Co 404
19 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/visbug/ VisBug 404
20 https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/why-i-blocked-accessibe/ Why I blocked #AccessiBe 404
21 https://www.barrierbreak.com/2021/07/13/why-should-you-stay-away-from-accessibility-overlays/ Why should you stay away from Accessibility Overlays? 404
22 hhttps://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/understanding-techniques Techniques bad url
23 http://ffb.ca/learn/eye-diseases/ Retinal degeneration 404
24 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Preferences/Preference_reference/accessibility.tabfocus accessibility.tabfocus 404
25 https://www.ncdt.nl/ncdt-2019/readability-on-the-web-damien-senger research on readability on the web 404
26 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-invalid_attribute aria-invalid="true" 404
27 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-describedby_attribute aria-describedby 404
28 https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/s390x/ch01s01.html Ubuntu 404
29 https://www.pixel-ruler.net/android-scale-independent-pixel scale-independent pixels timeout
30 https://www.mobileux.net/2019/06/24/designing-apps-with-accessible-fonts/ Designing Apps with Accessible Fonts 404
31 https://midnight-lizard.org/home Midnight Lizard 404
32 https://jamstackconf.com/jammies/ Jammy for Social Impact Award 404
33 http://jxnblk.com/colorable/demos/text/ Colorable 404

Expected outcome

Not many 404s

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Check if these links are working, use an automated tool to check

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@Roshanjossey Roshanjossey added the bug Problems with the project's functionality label Oct 3, 2022
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Thanks for submitting this, looks like we have some URLs to fix 😅

@ericwbailey ericwbailey added help wanted Issues the team would like assistince with. good first issue A small, good place to get started working with the site. content Issues dealing with our published content. labels Oct 3, 2022
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Cool cool cool. I'll change the number in the table to checkboxes to keep track of what's updated.
I'll ask questions when working on updating these

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Roshanjossey added a commit to Roshanjossey/a11yproject.com that referenced this issue Oct 24, 2022
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update or remove 404 links
d257721 
(a11yproject#1478)

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 - Accessibility Tester
 - Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
 - Hex Naw
 - Image-Color: Color Contrast Checker
 - Munich Accessibility Meetup
 - Paris Web Accessibility Meetup
 - Stark newsletter

Update
 - Simply Accessible articles to Level Access blog
 - Karl Groves' web accessibility blog link to https://karlgroves.com/category/professional/accessibility/
 - Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change book
   link to https://jenniferbrownspeaks.com/jbs-book-inclusion
 - Landmarks browser extension link to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/landmark-navigation-via-k/ddpokpbjopmeeiiolheejjpkonlkklgp
 - NoCoffee browser extension link to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nocoffee/
 - Philly Accessibility Meetup link to https://a11yphl.com/events/
 - I want to see like the colour blind chrome extension to Colorblindly
   chrome extension
@Roshanjossey Roshanjossey mentioned this issue Oct 24, 2022
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p2635 commented Feb 24, 2023

Potentially implement something like https://github.com/marketplace/actions/broken-link-checker-action to improve the process? Shall I create this as a new issue?

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@p2635 That'd be great, yes please!

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harsxv commented Mar 1, 2023

Actually, the broken-link-checker-action is also "broken" since the owner archived the repository to read-only 😁

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p2635 commented Mar 1, 2023 •
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Thanks for pointing that out, but that was just an example anyway @harsxv. I was just linking that as an idea. I've seen other link checkers and they are not perfect, but hopefully they can still save some time. More research to be done on #1521

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Yeah, the Newsletter link, which was just posted on Mastodon, is totally broken.

(Tried to tell you on Mastodon, but you're not allowing new accounts now, nor allowing accounts created elsewhere to sign in on your servers...?)

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@meatnordrink Apologies. Mastodon ownership handoff is still in-progress. Will be awhile before that gets sorted out and a few mistakes might go through the auto-poster.

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To clarify, @a11y.info is not owned by The A11Y Project organization. The account is hosted on the service, which is maintained by another individual. The A11Y Project are not allowing or disallowing anything in this regard.

The newsletter link was shared over two weeks ago, as per its post date. The page itself has been intentionally removed, and is not "totally broken."

westonludeke added a commit to westonludeke/a11yproject.com that referenced this issue Dec 8, 2023
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Update links in JSON and Markdown files
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- Updated 'Colorable' link in 'resources.json' to https://jxnblk.github.io/colorable/demos/text/.
- Changed Jamstack Conference, The Jammies Awards 2021 link in 'jammies-social-impact-award.md' to https://2021.jamstackconf.com/jammies/.
- Updated 'Designing Apps With Accessible Fonts' link in 'text-resizing-in-ios-and-android.md' to https://mobileux.net/designing-apps-with-accessible-fonts/.

Related issue in the original repository: a11yproject#1478
@westonludeke westonludeke mentioned this issue Dec 8, 2023
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Hi A11Y Project team!

I'm Weston👋 I love the work y'all are doing!

I saw this issue is still open and is labeled as a 'good-first-issue'. I've never committed a pull request to an open source project before, so I thought this would be a good chance for me to dip my toes in the water.

I updated three links and submitted a pull request: #1584

Let me know if there's anything I need to fix. If all goes well, I'm happy to continue to review other links.

Cheers!

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p2635 commented Feb 7, 2024 •
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Is @Roshanjossey still around to check off whatever is done on the main list of links? It's hard for me to know what is remaining.

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p2635 commented Feb 8, 2024 •
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I cross-checked it against my automated github action which I am investigating on #1521 (comment)

These appear to be the outstanding broken links if anyone wants to pick it up:

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I just submitted a new pull request, #1587 which updates six of the URLs listed above. A few notes:

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evelinabe commented Jun 20, 2024 •
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I just submitted a new pull request, #1596. It updates or removes some of the broken links above:

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