The fastest growing company that claims to use AI to make the internet accessible for blind people is actually making it harder for them to access websites, sources say. That’s a huge concern for disability justice advocates. My latest https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/blind-people-advocates-slam-company-claiming-make-websites-ada-compliant-n1266720">https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/inno...

AccessiBe, the company that says it uses AI to use one line of code to make websites accessible for blind people, also has a contentious relationship with blind people who say their feedback on how the product hasn’t worked for them was taken as hostility https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/blind-people-advocates-slam-company-claiming-make-websites-ada-compliant-n1266720">https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/inno...

The CEO accused blind people speaking out against the product as waging a “huge campaign” against the company and says the detractors are mainly competitors who are them as a threat

“If you have a website, do you want to include disabled people or do you want to exclude them? That’s why it& #39;s a civil right,” said @LFLegal, a civil rights attorney who worked on historic cases to make ATMs talk and pedestrian signals audible https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/blind-people-advocates-slam-company-claiming-make-websites-ada-compliant-n1266720">https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/inno...