No worries. That’s definitely on me reading it wrong.

This is what I’m aiming for:

“Adrian Roselli acknowledges that recent advances in computer vision and LLMs have brought some benefits to image descriptions can potentially help readers distil complex articles into understandable summaries.“

I’ll fix this up tonight in a PR.

I probably misinterpreted that a bit. Apologies.

I mistook “finally be useful” with “better” ☺️

Great job!👏

What a ride this has been!

Fantastic work from everyone to get this out!

I've read and re-read the #accessibility chapter as we were getting it ready. Now, it's time to read the other 14!

AI is now firmly part of the accessibility story: tools generate alt text and captions, scan code (for example, GitHub’s accessibility tooling), and help triage backlogs.

But they inherit bias and accessibility issues from their training data.

- About half of images still have either empty alt attributes or alt text shorter than 10 characters
- Roughly 8.5% of alt texts are just filenames
- Use of the native  main  element reached about 47%
- About 66% of pages use aria-label
- Around 33% of sites now use aria-live

- 67% of sites now override or remove default browser focus outlines
- Roughly 24% of pages have a detectable skip link
- About 35% of mobile inputs are labeled
- Over half of inputs on desktop (53%) and 55% on mobile rely solely on placeholder text for naming

Some stats that might make you go "what" or "shit" or "wow"

- Only about 31% of mobile sites meet minimum WCAG color contrast requirements
- 19% of mobile sites and 21% of desktop sites still restrict zoom or scaling
- About 86% of sites correctly declare a page language

It goes on...

The tooling is there and it's good enough. The legal pressure is real as well.

So the remaining gaps are mostly about governance and the day‑to‑day decisions about what to prioritise.

Overlays are still a thing.

About 2% of desktop sites now use accessibility overlays, but only 0.2% of the top 1,000 sites do so.

The European Accessibility Act is now in effect.

But nothing really changed for the web as a result. It will probably take more time for websites to align.

Or to care.

Anyway, automated tools such as Lighthouse and axe-core are good, but they detect less than half of real-world issues.

Overall, the Lighthouse scores are up. 85/100.

But the same four issues keep showing up everywhere: poor colour contrast, unclear link naming, broken heading hierarchies and missing or meaningless alt text on images.

I gotta say though. This thing rarely finds its docking station, it’s loud and it’s slow. The one purchase I regret the most in 2025.

These are officially amazing!

Super star! ⭐️ I’ll see about sharing mine

I’ve done something similar, just for VoiceOver. Yours looks much more interesting :) Mind sharing some of the shortcuts?