Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
I dunno about aria, but apparently there is this thing called a "DOM", which is why even though edbrowse uses the flipping mozilla js engine, I *still* can't use it for online banking.
It was announced recently on an accessibility-related list that someone had written a TTY interface to Firefox - it works by running Firefox under xvfb, then accessing the DOM and constructing an interface to present on a terminal. That, at least, is the theory; I don't know what the state of the code is, other than that it's still under development at a very early stage.
Bruce Schneier's blog is full of depressing examples of this.
There was also that great one where Target knew some teen girl was pregnant before her dad did, by data mining her purchase history.
Embarrassing, certainly. Where it becomes even more concerning is the data mining carried out by political parties, who are starting to employ many of the techniques used in the private sector to direct advertising toward the impressionable. Then there is this horrifying example: http://www.cultofmac.com/157641/this-creepy-app-isnt-just-stalking-women-wit...