2 Grid and 2 Landmark pages lead to 404 when accessed via redirects due to casing of file names

[mcking65]

We have 4 legacy URLs that still lead to 404 errors.

Data Grids Example Page

• Legacy URL we are redirecting: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/example-index/grid/dataGrids.html
• Current redirect Points to: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/grid/examples/datagrids/
• Functional location: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/grid/examples/dataGrids/

because people could be bookmarking the current functional location, it seems like we should change the redirect to point to the functional location. Then, we land Pull Request #2597 and add another redirect to the renamed file.

Layout Grids example page

• Legacy URL we are redirecting: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/example-index/grid/LayoutGrids.html
• Current redirect: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/grid/examples/layoutgrids/
• Functional location: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/grid/examples/LayoutGrids/

because people could be bookmarking the current functional location, it seems like we should change the redirect to point to the functional location. Then, we land Pull Request #2597 and add another redirect to the renamed file.

Landmark Examples: HTML Sectioning Elements page

• Legacy URL we are redirecting: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/example-index/landmarks/HTML5.html
• Current redirect Points to: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/landmarks/examples/html5
• Functional location 1: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/landmarks/examples/HTML5
• Functional location 2: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/landmarks/examples/HTML5.html

Should we leave the redirect as is and rename content/patterns/landmarks/examples/HTML5.html to content/patterns/landmarks/examples/html5.html? Perhaps add this change to w3c/aria-practices#2597?

Landmark Examples: General Principles page

• Legacy URL we are redirecting: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/example-index/landmarks/index.html
• Current redirect Points to: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/landmarks/examples/index
• Functional location 1: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/landmarks/examples/general-principles
• Functional location 2: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/landmarks/examples/general-principles.html

Is the best solution to change the redirect to point to functional location 1?

@alflennik wrote:

I looked into the datagrids and layout grids a little bit more and found that the WAI website seems to automatically remove capitalized letters from URLs. This is why the links on the site work but bookmarked pages don't.

I think the pages already have a bit of a strange naming convention, given that no other pages have capitalized letters, so a good solution would probably be to rename those two files in the aria-practices repo and introduce new redirects from the old urls to the new ones.

Originally posted by @alflennik in https://github.com/w3c/wai-aria-practices/issues/186#issuecomment-1412195791

[a11ydoer]

@alflennik can you share the order of actions you mentioned at the APG meeting on 2/14/2023?

[alflennik]

@mcking65 @a11ydoer we can safely merge https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/pull/2597 and following that I will create a new publication branch, inform the WAI team, and document the changes we need to make to the redirects.

[alflennik]

@mcking65 shall we close this issue following the deploy last week?

[mcking65]

Yes. Closed by w3c/aria-practices#2597 and #200.