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What kind of people are needed, accessibility experts? I think such people are usually PMs or designers, not engineers.

Accessibility experts typically end up creating a bunch of requirements that need engineering man-hours to fulfil. That tends to be boring dev work that most people don't want to do for free. It's hard enough to find people to work on the shiny, fun stuff in open-source.

Sounds like a task for an LLM.

Sounds like a good task for LLM to fuck up the codebase to a point it's unmaintainable.

LLMs are terrible at accessibility since it requires a lot of implicit context. I'm currently implenemting accessibility for a web app. LLMs (sonnet 3-4, gemini 2.5) make a huge mess and they need a lot of supervision and planning

You don't need to be an expert to verify basic checklists. Adding accessibility labels to your buttons, making keyboard navigation work are supposed to be part of your work as an "engineer". Can you imagine building a bridge and saying "yeah no I haven't checked the sidewalks are safe that's an accessibility feature" ?

A basic understanding of accessibility principles is a requirement if you intend to call yourself an engineer (and work on UI facing elements, of course.)

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