Can we fix the wiki on mobile?

Thu Oct 16 15:24:01 UTC 2014

I just sent a request for an Open Source Licence for the plugin Tony recommended.

Thanks
Justin

On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Obara, Justin <jobara at ocadu.ca<mailto:jobara at ocadu.ca>> wrote:

I've disabled the current mobile plugin. There is no longer a mobile theme for our wiki. We should look into Tony's other suggestions. I'm not sure who currently manages the licenses, perhaps that's done by Avtar.

Thanks
Justin

On Oct 16, 2014, at 4:19 AM, Tony Atkins <tony at raisingthefloor.org<mailto:tony at raisingthefloor.org>> wrote:

Hi, All:

I didn't see any obvious fixes in the versions between what we're running and 5.6 (the newest), but it may be worth upgrading longer term.  Shorter term, we should disable the plugin.

As an alternative, there is another mobile plugin which is available free for holders of open source licenses:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.mobile

Whomever is our technical contact for our current license should be able to get them to issue a license for the plugin with very little effort.

Even if we don't use their mobile plugin, it's worth getting in touch with the vendor, they are one of the big players in theming Confluence.  Theme plugin developers are well placed to provide assistive solutions for Confluence, especially those who are active in markets where accessibility is a requirement.  I have heard that clients in Germany are staring to pay good money to contractors to ensure that their Confluence instances meet accessibility requirements on a case by case basis. A general solution would be a big selling point.   Ideally there would be multiple vendors to drive the prices down and quality up, which is why I have been pushing the ideas with every theme vendor I know.  There are some who are not making deep enough changes to the Confluence UI to help, but others who are very close to releasing a general solution.

As an example, Communardo (a German Atlassian partner) is planning to release a plugin that adds themes that meet at least the accessibility requirements of their local customers in Germany (I suspect they would be meeting EU requirements, but that's one of the questions I want to ask them).  They would like to demonstrate their work in progress on the 23rd during the European afternoon.  Let me know if you're interested in attending and giving them feedback.

Anyway, setting aside the longer discussion about Confluence accessibility, I am happy to help with the current problem in any way I can: disabling the plugin, documenting the problem, contacting support, installing alternate solutions.   If I can get access to the logs, I can do a lot to at least document the problem as a bug report or support request.  Whomever is administering our instance, please feel free to get in touch.

Cheers,

Tony

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Tony Atkins <tony at raisingthefloor.org<mailto:tony at raisingthefloor.org>> wrote:
Hi, All:

This is a plugin that is bundled with newer versions of Confluence (5.1 and higher).  We are a bit out of date, I suspect that newer versions are tested with a wider range of mobile browsers.  Will do a quick bit of searching to confirm.

For now, I understand that upgrading is a longer term process, and that we need an immediate solution.  The plugin can be trivially disabled by an admin (just search for mobile in the "add ons" control panel).  Happy to assist if it's not clear to whomever is working on this.

Cheers,

Tony

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu<mailto:swgithen at mtu.edu>> wrote:
I think it’s the mobile plugin.  When you search for the wiki on say, mobile safari, the top hit is the wiki with a path of /plugins/mobile/servlet/ something something something. If you manually type in the wiki url so that mobile plugin version doesn’t get moved to the top of the hits the regular page works fine.

Maybe we can uninstall or upgrade whatever plugin that is.

-s

On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Obara, Justin <jobara at ocadu.ca<mailto:jobara at ocadu.ca>> wrote:

> Hi Colin,
>
> I tried today. Got that error. Hit the retry button I think and now I don't see it anymore. Not sure what caused it though.
>
> Thanks
> Justin
>
> On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Clark, Colin <cclark at ocadu.ca<mailto:cclark at ocadu.ca>> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> When you visit the Fluid Project wiki on a mobile device (like an iPhone), you get an error page saying "Oops! Something went wrong." It's been like this for a while, and I'm not sure what is causing it. Can we look into it and see if we can fix it? A lot of users have been complaining recently.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> ---
>> Colin Clark
>> Lead Software Architect,
>> Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
>> http://inclusivedesign.ca<http://inclusivedesign.ca/>
>>
>
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