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I wrote about accessibility with a lil touch of the future of the internet? cassidoo.co/post/accessi...

Funny, one of the reasons I left GitHub is because the powers that be think they can "solve" it by automating it away. That completely ignores the "functional but unusable problem." This creates a scenario where bots can operate something and the people that need the accessible experience cannot.

Some more reading on this from people smarter than me, if you're interested: www.techpolicy.press/the-web-is-b...

Thank you for the link! I enjoyed the overall thought behind the post, but this part killed the message for me 'it’s easier than ever to implement things in a “correct” and accessible way with AI tools. You can tell your agents to be WCAG-compliant, and it can just do it'

We've been saying for years that WCAG is the floor and it does not guarantee a website is usable by people. 😢 Not to mention AI's technical implementation limitations. Maybe it's not Cassidy's intention but this paragraph makes a11y sound like a fully automatable task, which it isn't.

I could be too pessimistic, but based on the annual WebAIM survey I think accessibility is getting worse, not better. That might point to a difference between perceived accessibility, as reported by developers, and actual accessibility, as experienced by people with disabilities.