Comment by MrVandemar

It's not "virtue ethics". It's a fact: turning accessibility testing over to "AI" will deprive a group of low-income low-agency people with skin in the game of employment.

If society were perhaps more compassionate, and supportive of this group, then perhaps it wouldn't be so much of a problem.

As to your point about significantly improving accessibility of the web, we could do that right now, all of us, without "AI". We could have done that yesterday. Use semantic HTML, instead of injecting div-soup using Javascript into ad-riddled dark-patterned user hostile slop-pages.

"AI" (or accessibility audits themselves) are a bandaid after the fact. Accessibility needs to be baked in.