I just had a crazy idea. Use a text to speech program to create audio files that are played to assist the user with the given page when a help icon is clicked on. Example: https://murf.ai/shared/share-link/public/W6X9ROGeEFX0pEiJAFApCr5RZgx1/P016597402149779F5/output.wav

You could just use the Javascript Web Speech functionality. It’s built-in to most browsers.

The api isn't compatible on all browsers yet though.

Ogg/mp3 files would require storage and transfer for every single audio clip. I suppose they’re as normal as the web gets for audio files.

https://jsfiddle.net/OokmaKyi/8dqb12xw/2/ this seems a bit obsessive as the text to speak is longer then the code... any way to shorten it or make it more portable?

If a web page started speaking to me when I "pressed F1" I would throw my computer out the nearest window. I do not want my fucking computer speaking to me when it's trying to be a big help. If however I activated an "audio assistance" feature (which I would never do, but I get that this would help some people), then fair cop. For implementation of an MVP I would probably use inbuilt browser support though I think.

@Ookma-Kyi I assumed you would be speaking text already on the page. So, no, it’s basically WYSIWYG.

@Adam Cameron It would be in response to clicking a help icon, more so for the visually impaired then anything.

@Ookma-Kyi anyone who would need this would use a screen reader already - just build your web pages in an accessible way (and get them tested by a third party that knows about this). This should be standard practice but still seems to be an afterthought on most sites 😞