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Re:Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at on... by microcolonel on Sunday September 04, 2016 @03:11PM (#12426153)

That is very cool, thank you for sharing. I'll see if I can put some weekends into my part of the solution. Prefab seems like it may be the only hope for making existing proprietary software accessible; I want to make it easy for businesses with accessibility requirements to do the right thing well.

Maybe in the future we won't need computer vision to reverse-render display elements, one can dream.

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Re:Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at on... by DonHopkins on Monday September 05, 2016 @10:16AM (#12430428)

I think it's great to use JavaScript to control and combine the best of both worlds: accessibility APIs plus screen scraping / selective screencasting / pattern recognition / computer vision.

For example, you could use the accessibility APIs to find the screen position of the video window in the Skype application, perform facial recognition and tracking, and screencast the video onto a texture of a VR chat application.

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