[zmnd]

For people with more accessibility expertise, why instead of pushing all websites to be accessible, there's no push for a better accessibility AI? I would imagine that having a better interpretation model, implemented by a couple of tech giants, would be a more productive use of our time than ensuring that all aria labels are in place? Is it because nobody is working in this problem space? It sounds fairly straightforward problem to solve, comparing to some recent achievements.

[devinprater]

It's been tried. See accessibility overlays. And they all suck.

[zmnd]

We have tried neural nets before as well. But technologies and constraints are changing. I just took a screenshot of the Facebook feed, and segment-anything model was able to identify most of the elements, even without proper fine-tuning. Scrapping billions of elements with classifications is also something fairly trivial.

I, perhaps naively, think that training a better model(s) that helps with accessibility is a much better path forward for users that need it. Just a genuine question, not sure why I am getting downvoted. By no means, I am implying that this is not important.