No. No Automatic Tool Verifies or Fixes a Website’s Accessibility
summary
The talk explains why automated tools and AI cannot fully verify or repair web and mobile app accessibility. It names automated accessibility-checking tools and “self-repair” solutions as the technologies discussed, argues they’re insufficient for compliance, and draws on 20+ years’ professional experience to show these fixes are often ineffective or merely symbolic.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Conference introduction
- 1:28Legal obligations and accessibility market
- 5:43Accessibility problems origin
- 7:49Accessibility expert role
- 9:33User involvement in testing
- 13:27Human vs automated verification
- 17:40Built-in verification tools
- 19:31Overlay limits and self-repair
- 23:07Why overlays don’t ensure compliance
- 25:33Critical overlay examples
- 30:10Real overlay benefits
- 31:32Default accessibility in companies
- 32:14AI role
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