Why AI depends on the foundation accessible design systems build — and how "AI will fix accessibility" is producing the opposite outcome at industry scale.
The influence of artificial intelligence on individuals with disabilities
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping assistive technologies, offering new possibilities for enhancing the independence, …
Why Tech Needs More Designers With Disabilities
A life-threatening encounter with AI technology convinced me that the needs of people with disabilities need to be engineered into our autonomous future.
The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People
Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.
Nothing About Us, Without Us: Disability Justice and AI
Intersectionality, ways that AI can support the disabled, and how we can win the race to make AI more inclusive.
AI-Generated UI Is Inaccessible by Default
It doesn't mean you can't get AI to help with accessible code, you've just got to know what you're doing.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Accessibility Research Symposium 2023
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
AI is not a tool.
"Like all tools, it has its pros and cons. It brings about radical changes, but we'll adapt." This cliché was true for previous technologies. But it isn’t necessarily true for AI. A tool extends the human body or percept...
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.
I tried to check out the papers this links to, but a whole bunch of them (maybe most of them) are ei — @aiueo.ooo
The influence of artificial intelligence on individuals with disabilities - ScienceDirect
Envisioning (Near-)Future IA Design
On the differences between using AI for automation vs. augmentation — and why information architects should explore both.
AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
Certainly the industry is transforming, however, the people and organizations falling into the trap of no longer reading and writing code only do so at their peril.
What fully automated firms will look like
Everyone is sleeping on the *collective* advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ - they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled, and evolved in ways humans simply can't.
3: Consulting the Record: AI Consistently Fails the Public - AI Now Institute
Amid the excitement over AI’s (speculative, hypothetical) potential, we have lost sight of the sobering reality of its present and recent past. AI is already intermediating critical social infrastructures, materially reshaping our institutions in ways that ratchet up inequality and concentrate power in the hands of the already powerful. It is consistently deployed in ways […]
AI* for accessibility
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
You wanna know why the disabled dont buy that bullshit about ai being an "accessibility tool"? Because we recognize the use of ai is disabling more people. Its harming actual communities where these data centers are built. Data centers are poisoning the environment around them.
A Review of the Ray-ban Meta AI Glasses for People With Low Vision
Is Meta Using Disabled People to Promote Its Glasses?
For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought
Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people | Letter
AI as a Tool for the Mental Load | Brittany Ellich | Offprint
Anker’s new earbuds are the first with its AI chip that boosts noise reduction
