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Hi. 🥰

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You wanna see something disgusting? Dehumanizing?

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Alright. Hold on. I’ll show you.

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I was on LinkedIn this morning.

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(Probably my first mistake.) Um.

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And I saw someone post about this tool called A11Y-AI.

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And I went to the website

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because I was really concerned about the post that they had,

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saying that they preferred this AI's explanation for accessibility bugs

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(web accessibility bugs) and I was like, “Hmm.

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That’s really interesting.”

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Um. So I went there and this is what it has:

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“Accessibility explained by those impacted.”

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I'm like, “Oh cool!

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They probably have some disabled people

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explaining how they're impacted by inaccessibility, right?”

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Like, real disabled people?

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Surely. Let's see what else.

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“Check any website for barriers

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and generate the perspective of those who face them.”

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I'm sorry.

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Um, generate?

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Hmm. That's weird.

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Disabled people use the internet

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like, quite a lot.

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Why…

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Why do we need to generate their perspectives?

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Weird. Okay.

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I- I was like, “Alright,

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I'm suspicious now.”

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Let’s see what else is here.

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You scroll down the page. This

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probably like in the About section.

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I don't really remember because, uh

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I got pissed off.

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“A11Y-AI,” um,

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“is an experiment using the storytelling capabilities of generative AI

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to bring the impact of accessibility violations to life.

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It aims to inspire web professionals to take action.”

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Okay. Well, um.

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I'm a disabled web professional who works in web accessibility. And, um.

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“Storytelling capabilities of generative AI” ???

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How about the storytelling capabilities of disabled people?

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There's lots of us. We tell our stories all the fucking time.

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All the time! And this is an insult

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to position AI as more credible or better at telling our stories than

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us ourselves.

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That is dehumanizing. If you're gonna believe a fucking ROBOT who has no emotions,

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no disabilities themselves,

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no ableism that it faces every fucking day,

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no health care issues, or access to healthcare issues,

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or lacking money to afford any of these things,

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or needing prescriptions, or being affected by prescription shortages.

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What the fuck does an AI know… about… “the impact of accessibility violations” ??

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Not SHIT.

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I'm sitting here on my couch trying to do my little self employed work

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(not to minimize [my work] or anything)

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and I read this. And I'm like,

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you can just fucking hire me.

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I am open for hire. This is what I do.

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I teach people about accessibility violations.

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That's my favorite part. I also write code. And I'm great at it. (laughs)

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And AI is being positioned over me. For what?

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Corporate greed? Fuck that. Fuck that.