Mastodawn

Here's some thoughts and feelings about needing to vibe code to do accessibility design work. https://ericwbailey.website/published/the-case-for-an-accessibility-designer-vibe-coding-when-all-his-coworkers-are-also-vibe-coding/

The case for an accessibility designer vibe coding when all his coworkers are also vibe coding

Am I letting my own personal beliefs and biases affect the outcome I ultimately want?.

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Mark T. Tomczak 1d ago

@eric I hadn't considered AI for accessibility before... It may plug an unfortunate gap I've seen, which is that developers really, really, really don't want to support a11y in most firms and management doesn't care enough to force the issue.

But if an LLM can reduce the problem of identifying issues to one analysis pass... That's not a small thing. And I'm generally seeing LLMs are better at that than traditional heuristic approaches, because they end up trained on real-world examples of what goes wrong.

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Eric 1d ago

@mark Unfortunately, my experience has been a high degree of wildly incorrect fixes when it comes to a LLM performing autonomously. It takes a high degree of scoped human intervention and verification, much to my boss’ disappointment.

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Drew Mochak 1d ago

@eric @mark Very much this--I can get pretty good results out of it, because I (not to toot my own horn,) am a genius. I know precisely how it must function and test it riggorously before submitting If you just say, "here's a thing, fix it" it usually doesn't work the first time. But if you stick with it you'll either get it to a good place or realize your problems were deeper than you thought, which is still useful.

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Eric

@prism @mark It's funny how every domain specialist realizes this. Then you extrapolate and 🫠