Post #2528149

2026-05-14 14:12 UTC

Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT: Can we PLEASE, leave the "#AI improves #accessibility" talks to people who actually benefit from #accessibility? I see SO MANY articles, On LinkedIn, on Slack, on Medium, about how AI improves #accessibility metrics, compliance, automates all the things. Newsflash: your metrics are likely incomplete or inconclusive, compliance is at best an illusory snapshot, and automation for #accessibility is still a pipe dream, and that's coming from someone who actually uses these tools OUTSIDE a presentation room. I don't care if you're #microsoft, #salesforce or whichever other big name that makes you feel authoritative. You're wrong, sorry to say. Want ACTUAL stories from ACTUAL people using #AI to improve #accessibility? Hire me and I'll talk your ear off. That's been me for months now. Don't want to, right before #GAAD? Welp ... that tells its own story then, doesn't it?

Replies (5)

@zersiax@cupoftea.social 2026-05-14 14:16

Want a freebie? Sure, I can do that! 1. Can #AI improve accessibility on the web? - Yeah probably. 2. Can it do it without supervision? - No. It almost habitually screws up the simplest of things because the training data is you lot's semantically terrible code. :P 3. Can it save time in making things accessible? - Yeah, provided someone competent is at the helm, see also q2. 4. DO humans need to be in the loop? - yes, see q2. 5. Are random big-tech officials making (generating?) 50-minute presentations to augment the echo chamber of this being a solved problem full of it? - That would be a yes. 6. Are they actually causing harm by not actually including the audience they are claiming to help? - Absolutely, please stop f***ing doing that. 7. Is this a terrible look near #GAAD where we need to convince others we care about #accessibility for one day of the year? - oh yeah.

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@jpellis2008@dragonscave.space 2026-05-14 14:28

@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space @zersiax@cupoftea.social Oh do not be sorry. Shout it from the rooftops.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-05-14 16:52

@zersiax@cupoftea.social It's AI industry propaganda. It can't really.

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@alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc 2026-05-15 01:11

@zersiax@cupoftea.social Its like a lot of people don't know about the accessibility agents that Taylor made, well they don't know, but they need to know if they are gonna use AI for a lot of things. I've used those agents with Codex and boy it makes things work properly, none of this BS where the AI doesn't know jack shit about accessibility.

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@tfb@functional.cafe 2026-05-15 06:09

@zersiax@cupoftea.social It's rather like translation. Can it help? Sure, it's a powerful language manipulation tool. In the right hands, it can fill in gaps, help speed things up, etc. A bunch of monolinguals excited about how they no longer feel obligated to pay people to do the task, though?

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