Re: AI and the future of Web accessibility Guidelines

Agreed. Same issue of Google is happened with an e-commerce web site with
mistake for gluten-free and with gluten. In this case the damage can be
higher...



Il gio 11 apr 2024, 03:22 Todd Libby <toddlibby@protonmail.com> ha scritto:

> I agree fully with Patrick:
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> > Once you bring in the "AI will do it" line of thinking, we may as well
> > just remove any author requirement, and WCAG becomes just a list of
> > requirements for AI user agents to massage any old web content into
> > something accessible.
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> Being a strong supporter against AI, because it will never work for
> accessibility, we have been down this road before. I mean, Google attempted
> their best shot and look where it got them. In hot water (so to speak).
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> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/01/google-sorry-racist-auto-tag-photo-app
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> and if we are ever going to learn something as a people (which we have
> not), instances like this will always be why I vehemently oppose AI in tech
> and accessibility.
>
> The article may be old, but the fact remains that AI is not the answer now
> (or ever in my opinion).
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> ---
> Best,
>
> Todd Libby
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> On Thursday, April 4th, 2024 at 8:08 AM, Patrick H. Lauke <
> redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 04/04/2024 08:02, Gregg Vanderheiden RTF wrote:
> >
> > > I think much of our work is not forward-looking.
> > >
> > > We will soon have AI that can do a better job of text alternatives than
> > > humans can for example.
> > > And then it is unclear why we would require authors to do all this
> work.
> > > This applies to a LOT of things.
> >
> >
> > As a counterpoint, Gregg ... when does it end? You've stated similar
> > when it comes to things like authors needing to provide correct explicit
> > markup for headings, since (to paraphrase) "AI will be able to do it".
> >
> > Captions, audio descriptions ... "AI will be able to do it".
> >
> > Colour contrast issues? "AI can detect it and change it on the fly".
> >
> > Once you bring in the "AI will do it" line of thinking, we may as well
> > just remove any author requirement, and WCAG becomes just a list of
> > requirements for AI user agents to massage any old web content into
> > something accessible.
> >
> > P
> > --
> > Patrick H. Lauke
> >
> > * https://www.splintered.co.uk/
> > * https://github.com/patrickhlauke
> > * https://flickr.com/photos/redux/
> > * https://mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lauke
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