Accessibility and the new model of the internet

I’m really grateful to work at a place like GitHub where accessiblity is really taken seriously. But, industry-wide, I feel like we haven’t seen as much care and dedication to accessibility historically. Anecdotally, I’ve heard countless developers ask the question, “how do I get my bosses to care about accessibility work as much as I do?” It’s an important thing to have, a no-brainer in my opinion, and I’ll not argue for accessibility in this post. That being said: Now, more than ever, accessibility feels much more like a first-class citizen, and I think there’s a few reasons for this. Firstly, it’s easier than ever to implement things in a “correct” and accessible way with AI tools. You can tell your agents to be WCAG-compliant (or whatever tools your team uses), and it can just… do it. And that’s really amazing! Secondly, and more… interestingly, a lot of people are making their applications accessible because if a human cannot navigate a website, an agent might not be able to…