Post #1452958
2026-04-19 01:33 UTC
You may be wondering how us blind folk got along before AI. We had 3 options: find a sighted person, find a different app, or don't do the thing. Option 3 usually wins out. This is a near-daily occurance. Encounter these barriers for a few decades, and you too may start to get desperate for a better alternative. Again, I hate AI as much as you, but the reality is that blind and disabled people are going to use these until we have a better solution. That better solution is a fundamental change in how societies view disabled people and how their priorities are considered in relation to the priorities of abled people
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@XerShadowTail@chitter.xyz 2026-04-19 04:01
@PepperTheVixen Same for captioning/transcription devices and hearing aids, which have used some form of AI for a decade or more. I will note that I am not blind, though I have tried Apple's UI accessibility feature that uses AI to find UI elements on the screen, which is pretty amazing use of the technology.