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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 4th of June 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 04 16:44
    [innovati] I just made a Migraine-OK browser page =D http://staticresource.com/headache.html
  2. [innovati] I often get really bad headaches, and if I need to use my mobile device, even turning the brightness down to the lowest setting is often painfully bright for me. In the past I had written a JS bookmarklet that I could run on any loaded web page that would add a dark overlay - but every time I navigated to a new page it would be bright again until I had run my bookmarklet
  3. [innovati] so I decided to do something more about the problem =D I don't think petitioning Apple, Google, and all device manufacturers to let me make the screen darker is going to happen any time soon - so I built a web page with a dark overlay where you can load any URL into an iframe, and then browse the web, and even full-screen the page so you don't see any non-dark UI elements
  4. [innovati] it's like accessibility from the bottom up - starting with my browser and applying to every website I visit =D
  5. [innovati] I wonder what other accessibility things we can build tools or utilities for to help people, despite the lack of support from the device or web designers making the things we're consuming;
  6. [innovati] if anybody knows of a condition or disability (like my migraines) that could have a simple fix for all websites (like a dark overlay) let me know - I'd love to build more helpful tools like this!
  7. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 04 19:44
    [jessebeach] @innovati have you looked at Electron for building custom web browsers? https://electron.atom.io/
  8. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 04 20:52
    [cklatik] @innovati what about a plugin that enables high contrast mode - white text on black for specific pages? I think there are ones that do that.
  9. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 04 21:51
    [zeek786] Hello all, just joined here, passionate about accessibility nad looking to get my foot in the door in accessibility. Looking forward to all the convos and information.
  10. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 04 23:41
    [innovati] @jessebeach I'm intending to use this on mobile devices - it should be possible to use a user script in any existing desktop web browsers that would tint or darken every web page without having to make a 'headache web browser' as a standalone package!
  11. [innovati] @cklatik for high-contrast mode, I think it would be tricky to make a script that could be run on every layout and design - but an approach like the browser's built-in 'reader' mode which extracts text and displays that with new styles might work. what if you had a plugin where after you activated it, whatever you tapped/clicked on showed up in high-contrast text in a modal window - then you could access a 'reader-mode' for any element. Maybe that would help for high-constrast fans