Comment by _heimdall
I was genuinely (maybe naively) impressed when google pushed for https everywhere. Maybe there were nefarious reason behind it that I missed, but it did a lot of good for the average web user.
LLM companies could easily have made a similar impact by leaning on accessibility tooling. Pushing companies to better support ARIA standards online would have made a huge impact for the better.
Heck, throw a little of that LLM money towards browser vendors to even better support ARIA - personally I'd love to see a proper API for directly accessing the accessibility tree.
> LLM companies could easily have made a similar impact by leaning on accessibility tooling. Pushing companies to better support ARIA standards online would have made a huge impact for the better.
If anything, they'd have the reverse impact, unfortunately. The thing is, the companies whose sites/apps/resources would be accessed by LLMs don't want this. That's the entire point of the article we're discussing.
All I'm saying is, accessibility is the only interoperability wedge they can't just close off, without a huge community backlash and in some cases because of compliance reasons.