Issue #508
Featured: The AI strategy trap
“Right now, the models aren’t good enough to do accessibility work. But, let’s say a year down the line they are. On the surface, this looks great. Suddenly, creating accessible websites and applications is within the grasp of every developer. But, if an organisation is outsourcing all of its accessibility work to an AI tool, and that tool follows the pricing curve I’ve described in this post, then the cost of making your product or service usable is no longer within your control! It sits with a vendor whose prices are always going to rise year-on-year.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- Designing with mustard (blog post - annaecook.com)
- Legal update: June 2026 (blog post - convergeaccessibility.com)
- Improvements to web for AI should benefit all users (blog post - cloudfour.com)
- Handling missing data without breaking accessibility (blog post - intopia.digital)
- Designing for people who are D/deaf (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- The golden rule of customizable select (blog post - webkit.org)
- Partial accessibility is sometimes worse than no accessibility at all (blog post - buttondown.com/access-ability)
- A11y 101 – 3.2.2 On input (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- ∪ of target audiences (accessibility, SEO, aeo/geo) (blog post - adrianroselli.com)
- AI-generated UI is inaccessible by default (blog post - frontendmasters.com)
- WebAIM: Screen reader user survey #11 (survey - webaim.org)
- Belonging is a right, not a reward (blog post - gracedowwrites.com)
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