I’m being asked to give manager access to a person with visual impairment. I’ve never done this before. Is there anything I need to do differently in the manager in order to make this easy for them? They mainly want to write blog posts.
The (current) MODX manager isn’t good for accessibility. Take a look at this post:
Thanks Harry. I’ll research a little more and see what assistive technology they are currently using. I think I’m going to have to sit beside them and understand how they use the web in general.
In this case, I would be tempted to create a snippet that loads a page on the front end this person can log into. The snippet would create a simple interface that lists blog posts and enables adding new ones. It would take a bit of work, but would be tailored to this specific purpose.
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In these cases, I actually create a page on the front end with full accessibility.
In fact, if site management involves more than just content and graphics, I always create a page on the front end.
I graphically configure the manager, and in the manager menu, I add the link to the page.
Then, in addition to the group-based permissions, I also use additional permissions on the page, which I create based on my needs and control
$mgrContext = $modx->getContext('mgr');
if($mgrContext->checkPolicy('mio_permesso_o_uno_esistente')) {..}
This way I can fully control accessibility, and if I have many groups, I can create specific permissions directly.
There’s bound to be something wrong , but it’s always worked for me.
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You can create a custom, fully accessible, front-end create/edit view using @bobray’s News Publisher. You could redirect the user to editing space on login.
Alternatively, you could use FRED, which I believe, may have somewhat reasonable accessibility affordances but I don’t know how well rounded it is.
It really depends on this user’s level of need.
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I tend to limit access to the Manager whenever possible. The Manager is not only difficult to restyle, it’s a lot of work to make sure people are kept out of Manager areas they shouldn’t have access to.
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Thank you for some very interesting ideas. This business is close by so I’m going to go and see them to learn about how they’re using the internet in general - that will be interesting in its self.
The blog is built using collections so I’m already thinking I can give them a log in that goes directly to the Collections blog. If I then cut down the fields to just Page title, Summary, Content and an image TV - also set to auto publish, that’s about as simple as I can make it.
I can understand about the front end method and I might end up doing something similar but I’m also thinking that the manager is at least high contrast. I should be able to simplify the RTE also.
I think the starting point is learning how they work first though. There has to be some other intervention from somebody I would imagine - I mean how do you go about sourcing the right image?