Instead of making every website accessible → AI-powered 100%-accessible browsers
2 points by mgav 9 hours ago
Respectfully, it’s not very helpful to develop 10,000 rules and standards that are nearly impossible for creators of all 200 million active worldwide websites to even comprehend.
Instead, the most helpful way to advance accessibility is to find easy solutions for implementation.
For example, instead of making all 200 websites accessible, which is obviously failing, why not make browsers, like Chrome, Firefox and Safari, implement AI-powered “make-accessible” mode, that makes even a zero-percent accessible website 100% perfectly accessible in real-time?
If the U.S. Gov't funded an open source solution with $15 million to finish in 12 months, then $2 million per year for future development, and gave it away for free to any browser builder, the entire accessibility issue would be SOLVED!
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.