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.
It is not easy to get everything right in terms of accessibility. You make a very good point about certain content, such as your bank account, being too sensitive for the browser to actively interpret. Thanks!
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!
Meta AI and Be MY Eyes already can do something similar with cameras. It's useful to me as a blind person but definitely not to the point where I'd trust it to help me do online banking, apply for jobs etc. I frequently get incorrect information such as invalid expiration dates on food, inability to read temperatures on displays in sunlight, telling me products are on the shelf in the pantry that aren't, etc. My wife loves the blindness specific AI image recognition though since it's really good at determining the flavor of Propel water and I no longer have to ask her if it's grape or not.
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.
It is not easy to get everything right in terms of accessibility. You make a very good point about certain content, such as your bank account, being too sensitive for the browser to actively interpret. Thanks!
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!
Meta AI and Be MY Eyes already can do something similar with cameras. It's useful to me as a blind person but definitely not to the point where I'd trust it to help me do online banking, apply for jobs etc. I frequently get incorrect information such as invalid expiration dates on food, inability to read temperatures on displays in sunlight, telling me products are on the shelf in the pantry that aren't, etc. My wife loves the blindness specific AI image recognition though since it's really good at determining the flavor of Propel water and I no longer have to ask her if it's grape or not.
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?
$15 million is 35+ people working full time for a year at $200/hr each (75,000 hours). I am not an expert, but I bet this could get the job done.