Scripting Enabled Day Two brainstorming
Here’s the ideas we collected in the brainstorming of Scripting Enabled hack day:
- Easy way to distribute GreaseMonkey - it is a really powerful and easy tool to use, but far too geeky. We need an easy way to tell people about its magical powers in a non-geeky way
- Accessible WYSIWYG editor based on the YUI Rich Text Editor
- Setting up a wiki for “Website Longplays” - descriptions how people with different disabilities managed to still order a CD, get to a sign-up form and so on. This would allow other people with the same conditions to do the same and tell the companies running the sites what the real issues are.
- Fixing the gallery in Wordpress to have alternative text as a must and clean up the markup
- Create a custom CSS for enabling line-wrapping for any site
- Create a “Screen Highlighter” - a script that blacks out everything on the page but the part you’re currently focusing on
- Using OpenID and microformats to auto-fill form fields
- Creating Audiobooks from the Gutenberg project with voice synthesizers
- GreaseMonkey script to add larger buttons to Google Maps
- Easy YouTube enhancements - location bar to understand searches and more enhancements flagged up by Antonia Hyde
- Microformat to mark up accessible buildings - hRamp
- Walking instructions using geolocation and TFL data
- Lonely Planet + Ordnance Survey Maps
Tags: brainstorming, scriptingenabled
September 20th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Hi,
After Scripting Enabled, I have launched a Facebook group to start documenting the accessibility issues with the site, particularly for screen reader users. Stuff as simple as not having ALT tags on many of the images! I hope we can reach them on their own platform…
Would be great to get more experienced accessibility people and screen reader users sending constructive feedback back to Facebook.
http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=26721566131
September 20th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Project Gutenberg has a wide range of books already available in audio. This project is limited to accessing those.
It would be a potential expansion to include automatically producing audio streams from stored text files except that this would be adding functionality that is already available to users of screen readers s am not sure if this would add anything valuable.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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