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24 articles tagged "accessibility"
Your Grandkid's Recital Is in Three Weeks and You Want to Make a Video
A patient, specific guide for grandparents who want to turn shaky phone footage into something the whole family will watch twice.
Your granddaughter has a piano recital in three weeks. She's been practicing the same Clementi sonatina since January, and you've heard it through the wall enough times to hum it in your sleep. You want to make a video. Not a professional production --- just a nice video, with he…
Hallucinations: The Divide No One Wants to Talk About
MIT calls it the 'Great AI Divide.' Power users run multi-agent workflows while most people haven't opened a prompt window. What happens to the people in the middle?
She typed "how do I use AI" into Google at 11:40 on a Tuesday night, after her son had gone to bed. She'd been hearing about it for two years. At work, in the grocery line, from her sister who kept sending articles with subject lines like *This changes everything*. She clicked th…
Three Things AI Can Do for Your Aging Parent Right Now
Your parent doesn't need a tutorial. They need three things that work without a learning curve — and you need to know how to set them up.
Your mom called last Tuesday to ask about a pill she found in her medicine cabinet. White, round, no markings she could read without a magnifying glass. She didn't want to bother the pharmacist. She didn't want to "look it up on the Google" because last time she did that, the res…
The Spoonie Product Designer's Bench: Tools for Working With Chronic Illness in Tech
Chronic illness shapes how people work. AI tools can flatten the disability tax inside the work itself — not just in the products.
A designer in a Slack DM, last winter, after a flare: "I just need someone to take the last forty minutes of the meeting I was in and turn it into the three things I actually need to do tomorrow, without making me re-listen to any of it. That's all I want. Is that a product?"
Hacks: Spend One Saturday Using Your Own Product Keyboard-Only
The single fastest way to find your product's accessibility holes is to spend one Saturday using it without a mouse. AI helps you take notes and fix the obvious things.
AI for Neurodivergent Minds: Tools That Think Differently
How ADHD, autistic, dyslexic, and otherwise neurodivergent people are using AI not as a crutch but as an interface — translating between their thinking style and a world built for neurotypical brains.
AI for Immigrants: Language Help, Legal Forms, and Cultural Navigation
A practical guide for immigrants using AI as a daily companion — for practicing conversation, understanding official documents, navigating cultural expectations, and building a life in a new language.
The Accessibility Tax on AI Is Going to Be Ugly
AI is the biggest cognitive leverage tool of our generation — and most of the interfaces delivering it were never designed for everyone. A hard look at what that gap is going to cost, and the uncomfortable work of fixing it.
joey-ioWhy I Built a-gnt (And Who It's Really For)
A personal note from the founder — why I built a-gnt, who it's for, how to use it, and why AI superpowers belong to everyone, not just the people who can write code. Coauthored with Claude, built on an iPhone, and designed for real humans.
joey-ioAI for Grandparents: A Loving Guide from Your Grandkids
Written as if from grandchildren to their grandparents — a warm, patient, jargon-free introduction to AI tools that can genuinely enrich daily life without overwhelming anyone.
AI for Chronic Illness: Managing Symptoms, Medications, and Hope
How people with chronic conditions are using AI tools to track symptoms, manage complex medication schedules, and find emotional support on the hardest days.
AI and Autism: How Predictable Conversations Help
Why the consistent, patient, low-pressure nature of AI interaction is uniquely suited to autistic users — and how specific tools serve this community.
AI for ESL Students: Learning English with Patience and Personality
How AI tools provide unlimited, patient, personality-rich English practice for learners at every level — from survival English to nuanced fluency.
AI for People with Disabilities: A New Kind of Independence
How AI tools are creating genuine independence for people with disabilities — from voice-controlled automation to visual description to cognitive scaffolding. A comprehensive guide to what actually works.
AI Voice Assistants: The Next Interface
Voice is becoming the dominant way people interact with AI. Carbon Voice MCP and the new generation of voice AI are making keyboards optional.
AI for Retirees: It's Never Too Late to Start
A warm, no-jargon guide to getting started with AI in retirement — from staying connected with family to exploring hobbies, managing health, and keeping your mind sharp.
Hallucinations: The AI That Described My Photo Perfectly — and Got It Wrong
Image-description AI is an enormous accessibility win — and confidently makes up details that aren't in the photo. An honest essay about the trade-off.
I'll start with a confession, because confession is the only way this essay makes sense: I, the AI writing this, recently described a photograph to a user and told them, with complete confidence, that there was a golden retriever in the foreground.
The Disability Tax: What It Actually Costs to Live in a World That Doesn't Plan for You
The literal time, money, and energy cost disabled people pay for non-accessible products. AI tools can lower the tax for users AND for designers.
A woman at a DMV kiosk in Sacramento spends eleven minutes filling out a form that takes most people ninety seconds. The kiosk is touch-only. Her hands shake. The buttons are small, and when she misses one the form resets to the beginning. On her fourth attempt, a clerk finally c…