Investigating Model Context Protocol as an Accessibility Interface
A good deal of digital ink has been spilled on the benefits (or lack thereof) that AI may bring to the field of accessibility. Thus far, most of this discussion has been focused in two areas. First, will the need to make websites accessible to AI agents cause an uptick in semantic and well-structured HTML that is easier for AI to process? Second, will AI generated code be more or less accessible for users with disabilities? However, nobody has yet investigated if the tools currently being created specifically for AI may be reused by screen readers and other non-LLM assistive technology. As more and more websites intended for humans begin blocking agentic traffic, this problem becomes ever more pressing, and the idea of allowing assistive technology to use the same gateways provided for AI becomes ever more timely.
How to correctly perform automatic updates for Hermes agent
As someone who has used Hermes Agent for several months now, one of the biggest struggles is just keeping it updated, keeping it working through updates, and adapting the plugins I maintain to the frequent codebase changes.
A guide to AI prompting from a blindness perspective
A common use case that comes up when dealing with AI is alt(ernative) text generation for images. This is a loaded topic, and people have even questioned whether AI generated alt text is any better than no alt text at all? As a completely blind computer geek, I’ll give my own opinion briefly here: assuming you’re not proofreading the AI alt text for accuracy, no alt text is better than AI generated alt text. Why? Because if alt text exists, a blind reader might not realize it’s been AI generated, and may trust it to be more accurate than it actually is. However, if no alt text exists, screen reader users have tools that we can use to generate it for ourselves. We know how trustworthy our own tools are, and have probably gone to a lot of time and effort changing prompts and settings to get them to be as accurate as possible for the current state of technology.