Re: [EXT] AI and the future of Web accessibility Guidelines

can’t rewrite them to be about user need.   Which user.   Every user has different needs and some conflict.

Instead continue to write them  (many are already this was) to say what should be available to the user.
- then this can be met by author action
- or if already available in user agents - then they are met without author action — except that they can’t defeat the browser feature.

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> On Apr 12, 2024, at 2:12 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 12/04/2024 21:55, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
>> Correct - alt text is an html feature and is fixed
>> I am talking about AI that generates the alternative alternate in real- time whenever an image is encountered.
>> not an author thing
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> In the extreme then...rewrite all SCs to be about the user need (users need to be able to know what's the structure of content - headings, lists, etc - is, users need to be able to be given an text description/alternative for non-text content, etc). And then, for the "so how do authors achieve any of this?", just have a single technique ... "leave it up to AI in the user agent / acting as an intermediate".
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