If you are using AI that even measured extremely optimistically produces over 50% more barriers in code as the average human has done in the past 7 years, we are going to have a huge societal problem as this technology is shipped at scale. Of course, the fascists who push this tech want exactly that. #AI #a11y https://chaos.social/@kc/116113343357893488
Introducing WebAccessBench, a novel benchmark for AI language models to assess accessibility quality and WCAG conformance in generated web interfaces under realistic prompting conditions.
I did a bit of research and found that LLMs are incredibly bad at basic digital accessibility tasks. You can compare models and read the full white paper at https://conesible.de/wab.
Overall data suggests massive implications for society at large, and major discrimination of people with disabilities.
