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Excellent response. I said it before, forcing the responsibility of making thing accessible on the world makes no sense now (made sense before though). Just use an AI to interact with the app/website; it can provide whatever sort of accessibility you need. It should be built as a chrome extension or even native...

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Does it count if you have to pay for a service for something to be made accessible? I'm sure a blind person nowadays could hire an assistant to use their computer for them, but that would not be reasonable.

If your want to make something accessible from scratch you must first create the computer

So the whole world needs to pay (spend more) to accommodate to your problem? What next? You don't have legs so everyone around you must carry you?

Look, the goal is not to make things accessible. The goal is, out of generosity of the society (and I fully support it), to allow disabled people to access the services. Before recent times, it was only meaningfully possible thru building accessible friendly websites/apps.

This has always been a hit and miss. Usually only the super big companies did it right (see Google apple Ms) or people using big company's framework with some carefulness. But for the most, it didn't work out. That's why so much complaint against websites being inaccessible.

Now we have a better way. Use a local AI to consume or interact with the content. This will empower the disabled far more than they currently are. Apple will probably lead the way here.

> So the whole world needs to pay (spend more) to accommodate to your problem?

Yes.

> What next? You don't have legs so everyone around you must carry you?

Too stupid to engage with.

Obviously society has to accommodate (i.e. spend money for) people who are disabled or unable to interact with it due to inalienable features of their body. Anything other than that is just cruel.

> Just use an AI

You mean like (a) assume this perfect AI that already exists never makes a mistake because AI doesn't do that, (b) accept all the security risks like prompt injection, (c) accept the fact that you don't deserve to enjoy the same privacy over your life as others do?

A. Any decent ones are more than good enough to provide content in an accessible way.

B. Like you accept the risk of running scripts? Or getting zero day thru your browser? Ridiculous. Sandbox it.

C. Local LLM is enough. Nothing needs to go to a server.

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