It's not just the web, accommodations disability advocates pushed for years are only showing up now to help delivery robots. Zong and Elavsky call this the "ramping automation effect". And worse: those robots are causing harm to disabled people. Ironic, isn’t it?
In the end, if we let AI "solve" accessibility as a side effect, we're basically saying that disabled people's needs were never enough on their own. Accessibility is a civil right, not a byproduct.
Jul 6, 2026, 12:46 PM@stephaniewalter Exactly. CSS debug also still a human job. By the time I tell AI what to do, I had finished.
@stephaniewalter this this this! I wish I could boost this more than once. :)
@stephaniewalter wait have they re-named the curb cut effect??? The irony!
@bright_helpings yes, I think that was exactly the point. The author used it as base to show how ridiculous it was that, we need robots to "require" something to make it happen, since humans requiring is was not enough.
@stephaniewalter I've seen so much more ink spilled about how robotaxis get around cities than I do about how I a blind pedestrian am meant to get around cities (especially if they're going to have robotaxis in them!).
@bright_helpings yeah, it's infuriating. People will only care about money, not other fellow humans.