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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Aug 16, 2011 4:30PM

I know this list focuses on getting web pages to be accessible,
following good guidelines and standards, but, I'd be interested in
feasibility thoughts on the following concept.

Can a FireFox or IE plug-in be written that:
1. Assesses Web pages for high priority inaccessibility issues, and
allows end-user, and crowd-sourced remediation. for example, a page
appears and has three unlabeled images. tool allows end-user to label
them, and then share via cloud with all other users. WebVism is more or
less this in a nutshell.

Then take that and:

2. Develop pattern matching and sharing of pages to automatically
remediate other inaccessible things, and do them without end user inputs
so much--or rely upon patterns of end user remediation for similar
patterned content.

I think this could work by in-browser DOM change on the client, and
would not require a proxy in the middle.






Allen Hoffman