BBO Visual Assist

BBO Visual Assist is a Chrome extension developed by John Lambe. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of BBO Visual Assist is 6.2, updated on 2023-01-24.
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BBO Visual Assist

Assists visually challenged users to play Bridge on the BBO (BridgeBase Online) website by:

1. Supporting voice commands and keyboard shortcuts.
2. Reading cards, bids, score etc. under the mouse cursor.
3. Reading chat messages and other unsolicited messages
4. Introducing each board, the vulnerability, and the dealer.
5. Giving a brief description of your hand and dummy’s.
6. Describing actions such as bids, cards played, alerts and claims.

The extension can be tailored to the required level of assistance by enabling or disabling the appropriate functions using the extension’s pop-up window.

Full documentation is available via the pop-up window.

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Version 6.2
• Bug Fix: Mouse clicks within the phrase translation page stopped working under latest Chrome Build 109.0.5414.75

Version 6.1
• Bug Fix: Mouse clicks stopped working under latest Chrome Build 109.0.5414.75

Version 6.0
• Keyboard entry for bids and card playing.
• Voice commands to repeat bids or the cards played.
• Voice commands to announce who’s turn it is to play and the number of tricks won.
• Voice command to announce the number of minutes remaining in the current round.
• Additional error messages.

Version 5.2 Fixes
• Pop-up question now only asked once when displayed (was repeated when dismissed).
• Invitation to a table pop-up detected
• Select just a bidding level and then pressing Enter didn't change the bid to PASS.
• Selecting PASS just spoken once.

Versions 5.1
• Vertical sidebar functions fixed (e.g. Show Double Dummy)

Version 5.0
• Updated to Chrome Manifest v3
• Supports the change to the Claim/Undo pop-up elements; caused some default Enter action to fail.
• UNDO button now displayed next to the board rather than as a sub-menu option.