Accessibility in the era of generative AI
summary
Claims that generative AI can scale practical accessibility: Azure AI and Copilot power features like Windows live captions (on-device), Seeing AI (GPT‑4 with vision) for image Q&A, and Azure OpenAI for Seaboard’s voice restoration where a custom voice is built from 3 minutes of audio and deployed to an open-source web app with 55,000 users. WPP prototypes use GPT‑4 vision to auto-generate audio descriptions for ads. Backing numbers: accessibility affects 1.3 billion people; demos show working integrations and production APIs in Azure AI Studio.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Accessibility and AI intro
- 1:28Defining accessibility at Microsoft
- 8:30AI impact on accessibility
- 14:57WPP’s AI-driven accessibility
- 19:38AI audio descriptions demo
- 22:07Azure AI assistive tech demos
- 31:47AI accessibility in apps
- 36:40Building accessible AI solutions
- 40:30Key takeaways for devs
- 45:14Q&A on AI accessibility
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