🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

2 months ago

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
2 months ago

I love this so much. It's pretty much a GUI for #tampermonkey, offering an easier way for #blind folks to find elements on a webpage and do things to them. Yes, you could do the same things directly by just writing JavaScript yourself. But this is much, much faster, and requires a bit less knowledge. It took me less than 30 seconds to turn all the story titles on fanfiction.net into headings. Labeling a button, or making other small changes would be just as fast. The typos and slightly incorrect English put me off at first; especially the word "blinds" for blind people felt weird and derogatory. apparently the author is from #Cameroon, though, so maybe that's standard there. stsolution2.org/WebAccessibilizer/#a11y#accessibility#screenreader

WebAccessibilizer- A web javascript to help blind to make html web pages more accessible

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#a11y #Accessibility #blind #screenreader #tampermonkey #cameroon

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

Also looking at his other projects, he has something that he calls an "accessible slut machine". Not a typo, it's called that everywhere. Disappointingly it's an "accessible slot machine". #English is hard and I feel bad for laughing. But at the same time I was really hoping for a slut machine.

#english

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Orinks

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

Give AI about 10 - 15 years and we could build out our own slut machines.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Orinks 2 months ago

@Orinks Yeah, but the AI bros won't bother making the slut machines accessible. You'll have to fill out a captcha before you can...Eh, I'm gonna stop right there.

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Tammy

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

lmao! It sucks that laughing is the only thing I can do here, but honestly if English isn't your first language but you're making something for peple who do speak English, you might want to get that part right.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Tammy 2 months ago

@TSchulte The problem is that "slut" is a word, and so no spelling or grammar checker would help you there.

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Tammy

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

I know but you might want someone who speaks English to check or edit like an author does wouldn't you? Or maybe I'm just weird. I know I would want that if I knew that I might make a mistake like that.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Tammy 2 months ago

@TSchulte Want it, yes. But I'm sure if I lived somewhere in central Africa, affording it would be another matter entirely. We're just lucky that we speak English, so anything we make we can just not translate at all. I have no idea what language is spoken in Cameroon, but I doubt releasing a program exclusively in that language is viable; it wouldn't surprise me if his choices were "do his best in English" or "don't release anything ever".

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Tammy

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

that's fair. I have no idea where he's from, I'm just going off your post.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Tammy 2 months ago

@TSchulte I think I said in the original post

. Though you might have missed it as this is a thread.

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Lisa

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

if you pull up 3 sluts tha match...

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Lisa 2 months ago

@liseo triple the pleasure, triple the fun...

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Lisa

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

ding ding ding i miss you how are you doing samspam

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Lisa 2 months ago

@liseo Eh working and making a living you?

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Florian

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

It is 100% a language thing, yes. Many languages outside of English don't really do the "blind person" thing but nounify the word blind into essentially "blind one", so if you then backtranslate back to English that just becomes blind/blinds. The guy has been working on this for years and it actually used to be a tampermonkey script, but it got accepted in the chrome store a couple days ago

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Florian 2 months ago

@zersiax Oh, interesting. I just discovered it today. But it's going to be hugely useful going forward.

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x0

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How did you go about doing that? I'm unfortunately in firefox so I have to install it in greasemonkey, and I don't then know how to activate it

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to x0 2 months ago

@x0 The hotkey to activate it is ctrl+shift+f2.

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x0

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

What changes did you make to turn fanfic stories into headings? Did you pload that to the central repo of modifications?

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to x0 2 months ago

@x0 You just press ctrl+shift+f2 on a story title, add a parameter, make it apply to anything with the stitle class, and set aria role to heading.

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x0

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Oh, you did, and I got an import error. Sad.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

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@x0 Oh weird. Maybe because I'm using the chrome extension not the script?

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x0

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Ugh, all the text in this thing uses IDs of some stripe, unknown_action_1 etc

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to x0 2 months ago

@x0 Probably for the translation system.

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x0

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Yup. Doesn't look like I can select a language though, the global options plum doesn't work. If it doesn't work in firefox I won't be using it.

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x0

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Damn shame too.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

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@x0 I want to like Firefox. But accessibility API is way too slow, cpu and memory use is way too high, no automatic alt text, and there translation is years behind. Chrome without Adblock uses half as many system resources as Firefox with Adblock, and is also faster. And now Mozilla is purchasing ad companies and using data in AI training anyway.

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Matt Campbell

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

Is Firefox's accessibility implementation still way too slow after their Cache the World project a couple years ago? It's the same API in both cases.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Matt Campbell 2 months ago

@matt@x0 It’s much faster. But still noticeably slower than chromium.

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x0

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 months ago

Huh? I get the same, or slower, speed with chromium. And did you actually just suggest I use a browser without adblock? One that killed UBlock origin, in fact? You are out of your mind

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to x0 2 months ago

@x0@matt Ublock works in edge and every browser other than chrome. Personally I don’t use Adblock and just hide iframes and block popups. I almost never get an ad doing that.

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x0

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It still does? It was part of manifest v3, not just the webstore, so chromium forks will end up doing it too. Surprised it hasn't happened yet.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to x0 2 months ago

@x0@matt It hasn’t. The forks are keeping it going to take market share away from chrome. And even when it goes, if it goes, you can run something like privoxy or adguard home. Ad blocking isn’t in any real danger from v3.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

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@x0@matt Adblock is in danger from YouTube and twitch inserting ads into the stream server side instead of client side. Meaning they’re indistinguishable to ad blockers, and also show up in files captured by yt dlp.

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