New Tools for Old Problems
summary
Historic accessible-icon critique leads to concrete hacks and prototypes: a bookmarklet that inserts alt text into Instagram images using Microsoft Custom Vision in ~25 lines plus mutation observers for infinite scroll; a custom speech model trained on hours of audio that streams voice via WebSocket and injects live captions into Twitch (works but needs better accuracy for jargon); a nascent screensaver-style distributed processor idea to crunch uncapped images/videos for mass remediation; notes that Apple adopted the revised icon while ISO rejects it and MoMA collects it.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:10New Tools for Old Problems
- 0:38Pop Quiz
- 1:18Sarah Hendren
- 1:40Accessible Icon Project
- 10:11Insta Caption
- 11:03Bookmarklet
- 12:29Live Closed Caption Injection
- 13:20Custom Speech Recognition
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