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I am pretty sure in the end accessibility will more likely be solved by some smart LLMs (with vision) interpreting arbitrary web pages on the user side, rather

by xpl 2y ago

I am pretty sure in the end accessibility will more likely be solved by some smart LLMs (with vision) interpreting arbitrary web pages on the user side, rather than by web developers coding it by hand. Because the latter obviously doesn't universally work. I would pay money for a browser plugin that restyles every web page to a single readable/accessible design that I like. Think "Reader Mode" on steroids (that could transform arbitrary GUIs, not just blog posts).

interstice 2y ago
Interesting idea, and I’d think mostly only limited by cost/speed per token currently
edent 2y ago
In the end? Maybe. What about the people who can't use the web now?
dartos 2y ago
> I would pay money for a browser plugin that restyles every web page to a single readable/accessible design that I like. Sometimes designs you don’t like are intentional.
- btown 2y ago
  As much as I work painstakingly to implement highly intentional design systems… the browser should be your “user agent.” If it can agentically interpret semi-structured data to help you, it’s entirely the user’s right to have the browser do that for them.
  - DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
    Except Chrome doesn’t support user-stylesheets - which is an outrage (even Internet Explorer supported them). I shouldn’t need to author my own Chrome extension just to set a minimum font-size on pages or disable fixed background images over remote-desktop.
    - btown 2y ago
      Stylus is quite effective for this! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...
    - kevindamm 2y ago
      Add your styles to Custom.css in the "User StyleSheets" folder of your profile path. No extension authoring needed.
      - DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
        This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere - all of the mentions I find about this date from around 2013-ish. There's nothing about it in Chrome's help site either: https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=user+stylesheet&from_promoted_search=true https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=user+stylesheet&f... https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=Custom.css https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=Custom.css
        kevindamm 2y ago
        hmm, when I get a chance I'll check that it still works, it's not something I still use and you're right that it's not documented
- rimunroe 2y ago
  I’m sure they are, but that doesn’t mean they’re good or will work well for me

by xpl 2y ago

interstice 2y ago

Interesting idea, and I’d think mostly only limited by cost/speed per token currently

edent 2y ago

In the end? Maybe. What about the people who can't use the web now?

dartos 2y ago

> I would pay money for a browser plugin that restyles every web page to a single readable/accessible design that I like. Sometimes designs you don’t like are intentional.

btown 2y ago
As much as I work painstakingly to implement highly intentional design systems… the browser should be your “user agent.” If it can agentically interpret semi-structured data to help you, it’s entirely the user’s right to have the browser do that for them.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
  Except Chrome doesn’t support user-stylesheets - which is an outrage (even Internet Explorer supported them). I shouldn’t need to author my own Chrome extension just to set a minimum font-size on pages or disable fixed background images over remote-desktop.
  - btown 2y ago
    Stylus is quite effective for this! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...
  - kevindamm 2y ago
    Add your styles to Custom.css in the "User StyleSheets" folder of your profile path. No extension authoring needed.
    - DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
      This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere - all of the mentions I find about this date from around 2013-ish. There's nothing about it in Chrome's help site either: https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=user+stylesheet&from_promoted_search=true https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=user+stylesheet&f... https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=Custom.css https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=Custom.css
      - kevindamm 2y ago
        hmm, when I get a chance I'll check that it still works, it's not something I still use and you're right that it's not documented
rimunroe 2y ago
I’m sure they are, but that doesn’t mean they’re good or will work well for me