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3d ago
Florian
@zersiax@cupoftea.social
I am Florian, florian is Dutch and Florian is he/him. I tend to talk about a myriad of different things, including #accessibility, #linguistics, #infoSec, #music, #programming and #gaming. Also #books, loads of books. Twitch streamer, LGBTQIA+-friendly and, oh right, fully #blind, as well. Anything more would be telling.
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Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT:
Can we PLEASE, leave the "#AI improves #accessibility" talks to people who actually benefit from #accessibility?
I see SO MANY articles, On LinkedIn, on Slack, on Medium, about how AI improves #accessibility metrics, compliance, automates all the things.
Newsflash: your metrics are likely incomplete or inconclusive, compliance is at best an illusory snapshot, and automation for #accessibility is still a pipe dream, and that's coming from someone who actually uses these tools OUTSIDE a presentation room.
I don't care if you're #microsoft, #salesforce or whichever other big name that makes you feel authoritative. You're wrong, sorry to say.
Want ACTUAL stories from ACTUAL people using #AI to improve #accessibility? Hire me and I'll talk your ear off. That's been me for months now.
Don't want to, right before #GAAD? Welp ... that tells its own story then, doesn't it?
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@zersiax@cupoftea.social
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3d ago
Florian
@zersiax@cupoftea.social
I am Florian, florian is Dutch and Florian is he/him. I tend to talk about a myriad of different things, including #accessibility, #linguistics, #infoSec, #music, #programming and #gaming. Also #books, loads of books. Twitch streamer, LGBTQIA+-friendly and, oh right, fully #blind, as well. Anything more would be telling.
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Want a freebie? Sure, I can do that!
- Can #AI improve accessibility on the web? - Yeah probably.
- Can it do it without supervision? - No. It almost habitually screws up the simplest of things because the training data is you lot’s semantically terrible code. :P
- Can it save time in making things accessible? - Yeah, provided someone competent is at the helm, see also q2.
- DO humans need to be in the loop? - yes, see q2.
- Are random big-tech officials making (generating?) 50-minute presentations to augment the echo chamber of this being a solved problem full of it? - That would be a yes.
- Are they actually causing harm by not actually including the audience they are claiming to help? - Absolutely, please stop f*ing doing that.
- Is this a terrible look near #GAAD where we need to convince others we care about #accessibility for one day of the year? - oh yeah.
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