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• Attendees: Bill, Nick, Danny, Courtney (briefly)
• Danny: Started working on DURACLOUD-1264 (DurAdmin Accessibility)
  • Starting to look at the Wave accessibility tool
  • Looking at the login page and main page of DurAdmin
  • Today starting to iterate on elements, try to fix some of the low hanging fruit
  • There are different classes of errors
  • There are some things that are just notices, about structural elements (not necessarily errors). Not everything called out is actually a problem.
  • There are certain javascript elements that can help to resolve problems in a variety of places
  • Approach: Iterate on individual elements and push PRs for each fix
  • WAVE provides a browser plugin to help get issues fixed
  • Will require some effort to get local environment for DuraCloud back up
    • Docs for this: https://github.com/duracloud/deployment-docs/blob/master/dev-guide-getting-started.md
• Nick:
  • WAVE tool useful
  • Able to get rid of most of the errors on the SyncTool
  • Current work: https://github.com/TexasDigitalLibrary/duracloud/commits/duracloud-1265
  • A few alerts that don't appear to be errors. Like not having header tags or page regions.
  • Some of the errors are old JQuery dialog boxes (like the close link)
  • Having to rebuild and relaunch the SyncTool; started stalling at 12% usage
    • Updated Jetty to the latest minor version, and this seems to have resolved the issue
    • Nick to create a ticket to pull this in
• It is some amount of effort to get a development environment set up. Could be done in Terraform or Docker
  • Would be nice to replace the mill-deploy with Terraform
• Bill:
  • Starting to look at all the things needed to update to Java 11
• WAVE tools
  • Should coordinate on things like color changes
    • Nick looking at an update to the background color (https://github.com/TexasDigitalLibrary/duracloud/commit/b6673705ebef8f6601679f2641f85aff69928196)
  • Testing on Chrome and Firefox
    • Safari has a feature to read the page, which is helpful for understanding

Week 2, Day 4 (08/20)

• Attendees: Bill, Nick, Danny
• Danny: Working on login page
  • Tricky because of the way the tool is evaluating contrast, may just be on the login page
  • The WAVE tool is seeing a white background when it's actually transparent (gradient). There doesn't appear to be a real contrast problem, even though it's showing up in the tool. It's not seeing the gray bar that the white text is sitting on.
    • So long as the person viewing the page can see the contrast, we're ok
    • Can use https://coolors.co/contrast-checker to check colors (where WAVE doesn't see it properly)
• Nick
  • Alt-text isn't necessary if the image is a background rather than an img tag
  • 1265 - just waiting to see how 1264 turns out, may make more changes
    • Fixed everything that was red, some of the things that were orange/yellow
    • Alert question: Creating headers and regions
    • Should capture a screenshot of the WAVE tool after change
  • Should test what it's like to try to navigate pages without a mouse - capture notes about what doesn't work
  • MySQL version moving to the latest connector (5.1.49) allows use of MySQL v8 (our current version only allows MySQL up to 7)
    • Will create a PR (and ticket) for the connector update
  • Moving on to 1246 (in the management console), planning to ask Heather for feedback after starting on this
• Bill
  • Working on moving to java 11, not much to report so far

Actions

•  Bill Brananto create a ticket to replace mill-deploy with Terraform