Open Source Chrome Extension supporting Screen Readers for Trados Cloud

[Paul Filkin]

Hi NVDA community,

I wanted to share an open source project that might interest developers here: tradosClarity - a Chrome extension that enhances web application accessibility for screen reader users who work with Trados Cloud which is a translation management solution that is also available to any translator who has an up to date version of Trados Studio.

Whilst Trados Cloud is heading in the right direction in terms of being accessible there are still elements that are not, and usability aspects sometimes get missed making it hard to navigate around.  So this extension aims to provide immediate fixes through browser-based DOM manipulation. So I'm adding keyboard shortcuts, proper ARIA announcements, and enhanced navigation to inaccessible web interfaces.

While it's a Chrome extension (not an NVDA add-on which I did try to work with for a short while), it is designed to work with NVDA, but also benefits being capable of supporting any other screen reader as well... or at least that's the idea!

GitHub: https://github.com/paulfilkin/tradosClarity

If anyone is working in the localization space and is interested in testing, reviewing the accessibility implementation, or discussing the broader strategy to help me improve it, contributions are welcome.

Thanks for your time!

Paul.