Post #3628345

2026-07-06 12:30 UTC

Sad truth: we are making the web accessible for AIs, not for people. Some sites now offer a text version for LLMs, but still skip real accessibility needs like proper heading structure, landmarks that screen reader users need. https://www.techpolicy.press/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people/

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@stephaniewalter@front-end.social 2026-07-06 12:30

It's not just the web, accommodations disability advocates pushed for years are only showing up now to help delivery robots. Zong and Elavsky call this the "ramping automation effect". And worse: those robots are causing harm to disabled people. Ironic, isn’t it?

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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social 2026-07-07 01:38

@stephaniewalter@front-end.social AI™ is not a "new kind of user". It's not any kind of user, its a tool for owners of corporations to take content. Personally, I don't want corporate thieves on my site at all. I do want to make it accessible to all humans.

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@ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog 2026-07-14 13:22

@stephaniewalter@front-end.social I saw this WHATWG github issue today: Proposal: agent-discoverable page metadata #12683 Evidently the site-wide LLM policies are insufficiently granular and they want a standard for per-page AI agent-specific instructions 🙄

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