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
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.
@fastfinge 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.
@fastfinge 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.
@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".
@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.
@fastfinge I've seen the blinds thing a lot too. No, we are not to be hung from your window on a chain, slid up and down and used to block out the light. We see no light to block out, as we are human beings who are blind.
@fastfinge 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
