Improve web accessibility with YipYip!

[andreseg]

Hi all, I know many of you have a lot more experience with technology accessibility than I do, so here I am asking for your help and input. We would like to try to use this project to improve people's lives, including those for whom this could have a greater impact.

We had some initial ideas around how YipYip could be connected to speech-to-text technologies to help people better navigate the web. For example, we could do the following to make this work relatively easily:

• we could use the Web Speech API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API/Using_the_Web_Speech_API)
• “YipYip” command to open the search bar
• “[any word or letter] to put into search bar (regardless of whether YipYip search-bar is open/focused)
• “YipYip next” to select next match
• “YipYip last” to select previous match
• “YipYip select” to press enter

This could also be used to help people navigate websites in other settings where mice and keyboards are not ideal. Such as on televisions, or in VR environments.

Therefore... Here is an issue that I would like kick off as a thread. Looking forward to thinking through some ideas with you all!