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 2d 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 2d 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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Gerard K Cohen

@eric @mark #Facts The amount of manual effort to get AI to do what everyone thinks it can do is severely understated. And even after all the setup, my experience was that it did not accelerate anything. Output was barely equal, but mostly lagging behind humans. (yes, this was actually measured)

And the reality is, thats "ok?" if everyone agrees and understands the effort and output. It's not magic. It's more artificial than it is intelligent. It's definitely not cheaper.