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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🇨🇦

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.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@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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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🇨🇦

@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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