No Local Privacy-Preserving Screen + Accessibility Tree Capture Tool
Developers building workflow summarization tools need to capture screen state and accessibility trees locally without sending data to the cloud. Existing tools are either cloud-based, lack a11y tree support, or are too complex to integrate. A simple open-source local solution is missing.
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