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Re: Machine learning for accessibility tooling in Firefox

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From: Date: Jul 23, 2019 1:50PM

On 23/07/2019 20:25, Asa Dotzler wrote:
[...]

> But identifying inaccessible custom elements is a challenge. The approach
> we're investigating is to use machine learning, which requires many
> examples. We would greatly appreciate your help in finding them, via this
> survey
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkZ_Hq4UKUtJDynbaZsSdfZEDx3Un9Z7M-MBN4ofy7vOvhlQ/viewform

Has Mozilla considered grepping the web for class name "cow paths"? I'd
wager that looking for things like "class="button", class="btn" and
variants would turn up a huge amount of data to work with.

If memory serves, this is one of the methods used to identify the cow
paths that were later paved as the header, footer, navigation elements
and such.


Léonie.



>
> Thank you,
> Asa Dotzler
> > > > >

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