Instead of making every website accessible → AI-powered 100%-accessible browsers

  • Have you looked at the rules and standards? Last time I delft with Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 there were less then 100 rules. I think you have a point about to many standards, but I'm pretty sure most of the standards have an incredible amount of overlap. As someone who's blind I don't want to interact with my online banking website through AI because they were to lazy to insure it's accessible and would rather click a checkbox. I already deal with enough hallucinations about functions in third party libraries that don't exist, inaccurate product specifications, etc. I don't want to miss a bill payment because AI thought it knew what I wanted and sent money to the wrong place, or misread my account. I could see a place for AI conducting basic automated testing for accessibility and providing information to a human to verify but I'm not sure if such a product exists.

  • You might be on to something here. Desktop agents that can have a fluid conversation with e.g. blind people about what they're "seeing". I'm not sure you need a special browser, though. Just wait a year!

  • Multiply those numbers by x1000 times and that's more like it.

    It's actually the other way around, the accessible web site can be easily automated by AI.

  • If it would cost only $15m, why wouldn’t Microsoft develop it and add it to Azure’s CDN as a tickbox feature?

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