LANDMARK · 5 MIN · USE
Accessibility
After this landmark, you can use AI to lower the cost of making things accessible while keeping a human check on anything people will rely on.
For a lot of accessibility work, AI is genuinely useful rather than a novelty. It transcribes speech, reads text aloud, drafts captions and alt text, rewrites dense prose in plain language, and describes what’s in an image. For someone who can’t easily see, hear, type, or read a wall of text, that’s real independence — and it arrives in seconds instead of hours. But auto-captions still mishear names, and drafted alt text still misreads pictures. AI lowers the cost of an accessible first draft; it doesn’t remove the responsibility to check the ones people depend on.
This is the canonical concept. It stays the same across learner lenses so personalization never changes the underlying facts.
◌ EVERYDAY LENS
What this looks like for you
Lean on the tools that help you — dictation instead of typing, read-aloud instead of squinting, a plain-language rewrite of something dense. When you rely on AI captions for something important, skim them for the words that actually carry the meaning.
MAKE A DECISION
You’re publishing a recorded talk and the platform auto-generates captions. Several technical terms and a speaker’s name look wrong in a quick glance. What’s the right call?
CARRY THISTurn on AI captions or read-aloud for something you’re about to share, then correct one thing it got wrong before it goes out.