Vanderheiden Gregg, Marte Crystal Yvette
University of Maryland, USA.
Raising the Floor, United States.
Ext Abstr Hum Factors Computing Syst. 2024;571:1-9.
With advances in AI, computer vision, and interface understanding, there is the potential to offload much of the work currently spent by companies' developers in making products accessible. There is also the potential to move our major accessibility approach from an 'inclusively-designed-products-plus-AT focus to a 'universal-interface-transformer focus. This would be a major reversal of approach and have significant ramifications for legislation, regulation, and the established large-scale accessibility industries that have grown up around them. Such a disruption would require concrete evidence that such a change would, in fact, be better for people with disabilities. It would also require a path from the former to the latter. This paper presents the case for such a shift, some of the benefits and ramifications, and the developments necessary to make the shift. It also outlines a hybrid approach between inclusive design and bespoke custom interfaces.
随着人工智能、计算机视觉和界面理解技术的进步，有可能减轻公司开发人员目前在使产品具有可访问性方面所花费的大量工作。还有可能将我们主要的无障碍设计方法从“包容性设计产品加辅助技术”的重点，转变为“通用界面变换器”的重点。这将是方法上的重大转变，并对围绕它们发展起来的立法、监管以及已确立的大规模无障碍行业产生重大影响。这种破坏需要确凿的证据表明这种变化实际上对残疾人更有利。它还需要一条从前一种方法向后一种方法转变的途径。本文阐述了这种转变的理由、一些好处和影响，以及实现这种转变所需的发展。它还概述了包容性设计和定制专用界面之间的混合方法。
