846324 - Many links on www.mozilla.org/access lead to 404 not found

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 793827

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

On http://www.mozilla.org/access/, many of the links are broken. 
* http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/access/slideshow/text
* http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/access/today

And many more.  Most of the links to the internal access pages end up in 404s and a few of the external links don't exist any more.

Comment 1

[Jennifer Bertsch [:jbertsch]]

Our plan is to redirect http://www.mozilla.org/access/ to 
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Accessibility 

In April 2013.

Comment 2

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Could someone fix the "Who Are You?" links sooner than that, at least?  It seems a bit rude to me to ask "Who are you and how do you want to get involved" directly, then link to somewhere that doesn't exist.    The rest of the giant links list I don't care as much about. Or... just remove that section entirely since "Join the Community" is a good contributor funnel in itself.

Comment 3

[Chris More [:cmore]]

The /access/ site gets 30-40 page views a day. Since link farms do not provide much value due to search being a better way of discovering content, and links rotting over time, my recommendation is to just redirect this this to MDN per comment 1.

The broken links on the page are accounting for about 300 404's per day due to inbound links pointing directly to the broken links and not the /access/ homepage. I don't think it is worth editing the content since the page is going away soon. We are currently focusing on the worst offenders with broken links on mozilla.org. There is another section of the site that is accounting for 20,000-30,000 404 views of broken links per day. I want to do this redirect of the access page, but we have a lot of high priority fires that we are trying to put it out. 

If we had spare time, I would surely just redirect or edit this page immediately.