https://github.com/xi/simple-alternative
browser extension to detect simple language alternatives
https://github.com/xi/simple-alternative
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browser extension to detect simple language alternatives
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/xi/simple-alternative
- Owner: xi
- License: mit
- Created: 2017-04-28T15:30:22.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-01-02T17:21:24.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-05T05:33:05.359Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 20.5 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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simple alternative - browser extension to detect simple language alternatives
# This extension
This extension adds a big round button to your browser. It will try to detect a
link to a simplified version of the current page in the current language. When
you click the button, the simplified version is loaded.
A link to a simplified version should look roughly like this:
# The `simple` language variant tag
The [simple language variant tag][1] has officially been included in the IANA
Language Subtag Registry. It intended meaning is "to represent a generic
simplification of a root language".
This could be useful for a lot of people:
- children
- people with cognitive disabilities
- second language learners
Among other things, it can be used to conform with
[Success Criterion 3.1.5 in WCAG 2.0][2]:
> When text requires reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary
> education level after removal of proper names and titles, supplemental
> content, or a version that does not require reading ability more advanced
> than the lower secondary education level, is available.
# Future
The simple language variant tag is still new and has not seen a lot of
adoption. This extension is merely a proof of concept. I would like to see
this kind of functionality directly in browsers one day.
[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.languages/11065
[2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#meaning-supplements