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Issue 964 in cherokee: Accessibility issues in web interface
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New issue 964 by ndarilek: Accessibility issues in web interface
http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/detail?id=964
I recently upgraded to the latest version of Cherokee as shipped in the
Ubuntu PPA, and noticed some major accessibility issues in the
administrative interface. These issues are not present in the previous 0.99
version and represent major regressions.
Instead of filing each one, I'll just note that in general it is now
impossible to navigate in most of the dialogs that appear in response to
creating new virtual servers, creating new handlers, etc. For instance, I
tried creating a new vserver, but the only fields to which I could tab were
the nickname, add and cancel buttons. I can simulate mouse movements with
Orca, but it is impossible to tab to the large list of wizards the
documentation recommends that I use to do just about every task. I can
simulate mouse clicks on the wizard categories to, for instance, click
on "platforms," but no matter what I do I can't select Rails. I can't even
use ctrl-f to open Firefox's find dialog, because this silly javascript
popup is aggressively stealing keycodes and modifying normally accessible
focus behavior.
I really like the web-based, graphical configurability of Cherokee, as I'm
not a big fan of config files. But I'm not sure that the 1.X releases are
usable. Sorry for the frustrated tone, but I was pleased to see various
accessibility issues fixed in 0.99X such that Cherokee was a joy to use
compared to just about everything else I've tried, and now I think I'll
have to switch to something else that I don't enjoy using nearly as much so
I don't waste any more of my client's billable hours.
Thanks for your time, and if I can provide any more specific feedback then
do let me know, but I think that trying to use the dialogs with just the
keyboard will be quite illuminating. :)
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