Background
- Luis von Ahn: Human Computation, Google Tech Talk, 2006 (on YouTube).
- Crowdsourcing on Wikipedia.
- Human-based computation on Wikipedia.
Research and Papers
- von Ahn, Luis; Ginosar, Shiry; Kedia, Mihir; Blum, Manuel (2006):
“Improving
Accessibility of the Web with a Computer Game (PDF)”,
ACM CHI Notes 2006.
Note: access to Phetch, the program described in this paper, was discontinued in 2008.
Pojects and Tools
Projects
- Fix the Web (UK).
Fix the Web is a British initiative that relies on crowdsourcing for both reporting and fixing accessibility issues on websites. (Due to a redesign, registration as a volunteer is currently not possible.) - The EIII
User Testing Tool is a bookmarklet that you can install in any
JavaScript-enabled browsers in order to report accessibility issues
that cannot be reliably detected through automated testing only.
The bookmarklet was developed during the European project European Internet Inclusion Initiative (EIII).
User Scripts
The following initiatives do not focus (or focus exclusively) on accessibility but have the potential to make sites more accessible.
- Accessmonkey.
-
GreaseMonkey
started as a browser extension for Firefox and a database of scripts.
The scripts are bits of JavaScript that customise the way a webpage
behaves or displays.
They are created by volunteers, who upload them to a scripts database.
Users can search the website or database and load scripts into the extension.
The Greasemonkey extension also allows you to write your own scripts.
(Forks and similar initiatives are listed further below.)
If you want to learn more about Greasemonkey or start using it,
the following websites are relevant:
- www.greasespot.net: the project's homepage.
- The Greasespot wiki explains how you can write scripts.
- The wiki page User Script Hosting explains where you can find scripts.
- User scripts are also available on the following sites: userscripts-mirror.org, openuserjs.org, greasyfork.org/en.
- The page Greasemonkey Hacks: Accessibility.
- Scriptish is or
was a fork of Greasemonkey. The project's code is available on
GitHub.
Note: the domain
scriptish.org
has expired. -
SnipMatch is
a
search-based code repository
. See also its Privacy page. -
ShiftSpace
was an
open source metaweb or web annotation application and framework
that was abandoned in 2011.