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From: Gary Barber
Date: Aug 17, 2011 6:03AM

Hi Allen

It's been done, mainly for visually impaired users. IBM have this
project out of the Japanese office IIRC called SAP - Social
Accessibility Project.

http://sa.watson.ibm.com/

Interesting aspect is they found they had lots of people correcting the
errors for them. But not many submissions of errors or issues from the
community that the accessibility would benefit. So the idea was good,
just the uptake of the service was poor from the people it would
benefit. Now there could be lot of secondary reasons for this lack of
uptake.

Still a very interesting idea.

Gary Barber


On 17/08/11 6:31 AM, Hoffman, Allen wrote:
> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> Allen Hoffman
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