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AccesiBe and other j*script annoyances |
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May 14th, 2021 |
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For the past several weeks in my news and social media feeds, I have |
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seen a lot of folks complaining about AccesiBe (and its contemporaries) |
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... The first several days, I ignored the rants, but today I finally |
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decided to look into it. |
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AccesiBe is a javascript embedded onto web pages which does an |
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absolutely terrible job of "improving" the accessibility of said web |
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pages... It purports to automatically add ALT attributes to images, |
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improve focus control on web forms, automatically repair keyboard short- |
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cuts, and a whole bunch of other shit that is the already the job of the |
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browser and the end-user's accessibility software (e.g. screen reader). |
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AccesiBe also outright lies in its marketing by implying that its script |
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makes websites which embed it resistant to accessibility (e.g. US ADA- |
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related) lawsuits... However sites have already been sued because the |
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AccesiBe script often makes them /less/ accessible. |
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see: https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html |
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TL;DR: AccesiBe and its contemporaries are garbage, increase page load+ |
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rendering time, and waste bandwidth. |
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Consequently I have decided to block that crap on my metered network, |
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and publish the hostnames of said javascript annoyances that I found: |
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acsbap.com |
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acsbapp.com |
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ws.audioeye.com |
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wsv3cdn.audioeye.com |
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api.userway.com |
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cdn.userway.org |
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fecdn.user1st.info |
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api.maxaccess.io |
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imioramoz2.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com |
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d5gilh1ztb0u5.cloudfront.net |
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d3tl8vem8osmxf.cloudfront.net |
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*.nagich.com |
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*.nagich.co.il |
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*.truabilities.com |
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hexagon-analytics.com |
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browser-update.org |
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utils.global-e.com |
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Of those last three, practically every modern browser includes a built- |
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in nag screen when it needs to be updated, I really don't see the need |
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to duplicate that function in remote javascript... And I don't want to |
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load lame analytic crap over a metered network. |
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