[nxc18]

> In 3 years, all this compliance shit will be out the window, because AI screen readers and agents are going to make the whole point moot.

Since the whole compliance racket is totally disconnected from actual accessibility outcomes, why would AI have any impact here?

There’s a standard and a law and money to be made.

[noduerme]

Because the law doesn't stipulate which methods you use to make something accessible to people with disabilities. It just requires that everyone have equal access. To litigate, someone has to show that they couldn't access something, and that the failure to access it caused them some measurable harm. In a couple years you can show a judge that a free LLM screen reader could have solved their access issues, and my guess is that those cases will then be thrown out, and the predatory law firms will move on to something juicier.

[techpression]

It’s not just about reading the screen, it’s about using it. It’s quite the downgrade going through a slow API hoping to be able to navigate compared to the 10x speed (or more) of screen readers. Then you have the problem of LLMs being stateless and sensitive information etc etc.

[fluoridation]

>In a couple years you can show a judge that a free LLM screen reader could have solved their access issues

It seems like it'd be equally trivial to demonstrate that said reader doesn't work on some combination of hardware and software.