I think I’ll be adding stuff that helps us all sort through these things … right now the UI is just a long list of possibilities. I want to add extra info, guidance and statistics to make it even more helpful.

Thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming. Feel free to review it in the Chrome store, my 2 five star reviews were accidentally deleted (by me getting frustrating with update process).

I just released the NoCoffee extension for Chrome today.

It’d be great to make a version of NoCoffee for Firefox and other browsers. I can post the code to that if anyone is interested in taking that on (or improving the extension for that matter).

window.checkBlurKey = function(evt) {
window.blurLevel = (window.blurLevel || 0);
window.blurLevel -= ((evt.charCode == 91/*[*/ && window.blurLevel > 0) ? 1: 0);
window.blurLevel += ((evt.charCode == 93/*]*/) ? 1: 0);
window.updateBlur();
};
window.updateBlur = function() {
var currZoom = window.outerWidth / window.innerWidth;
var adjustedBlur = window.blurLevel / currZoom;
if (document.body.style.webkitFilter) {
document.body.style.webkitFilter =
adjustedBlur ? ‘blur(‘ + adjustedBlur / 2 + ‘px)’ : ”;
} else {
var blur = adjustedBlur ? adjustedBlur : 0;
var filter = ‘url(\’data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#svgBlur\’)';
document.body.style.filter = filter;
}
};
if (window.blurLevel === undefined) {
window.addEventListener(‘keypress’, checkBlurKey);
setInterval(updateBlur, 500); // In case zoom changes
}
window.blurLevel = parseInt(prompt(‘Blur amount (0-20)? \n’ +
‘(Press [ and ] in page to change)’, window.blurLevel || 0));
window.updateBlur();

I took your live region article and simplified it a little bit, and ported it over. It still needs work though — want to take a look?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/ARIA/Live_Regions

I might need to take aria-controls out, as it’s not clear that ATs look at that for live regions.