Re:The Open API Initiative
by yeukhon on Friday March 11, 2016 @06:15PM
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The real major Open API I always think is required is an Open API allow me to interact with any part of a website so people can finally build assistive technology based on API rather than parsing some website's DOM that you will likely never be able to parse out correctly from version to version. If the website exposes a "REST" specification how to interact with the pages, then we can really build a website visual impaired can finally used. Just my rant after trying to build one and realized how crazy it was to learn to work with DOM.
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Re:The Open API Initiative
by palakchokshi on Friday March 11, 2016 @06:47PM
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What you are looking for is the semantic web or an accessible web. There are standards to create an accessible website but few developers do it unless their market has a significant number of visually impaired people. This is further complicated by Single Page Applications and/or web apps. If there was a browser extension or something that made every website accessible that would be an awesome extension.