AI and ADA compliance (US standards)

This information looks at how AI can support work with the Americans with Disabilities Act Title II Regulations.

  • Accessible Temple. From the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University. “Accessibility is about care and compassion for our students and commitment to an inclusive, welcoming environment for learning. It’s about proactive, prepared teaching. Rather than scrambling to make your course materials accessible when you receive an accommodation letter, designing a course that is accessible sends a powerful message to students that we know that access is important and we take action to ensure an inclusive and equitable environment for all students.”
  • Accessibility Resources from Temple University.

  • March 26, 2025. AOL’s AI Image Captions Terribly Describe Attempted Murder. Jason Koebler. “AOL.com is using AI to write captions for photos, which gave cutesy captions to photos of a man who allegedly tried to throw his wife off of a cliff in Hawaii and who has been charged with attempted murder.”
  • July 1, 2024. “Malicious” Pictorials: How Alt Text Matters to Screen Reader Users’ Experience of Image-Dense Media. Alyson Yin, Riya Sogani, Bruna Oewel, Karen Phan, Jaime Shin Young Park, Mia Ashley Yeo, Lindsay Ann Yazzolino, Karen Arcos, Ali Abdolrahmani, Emily Blank, Michael Dean Gilbert, Stacy M. Branham. “People who are blind face accessibility and usability barriers every time a digital image author omits or creates uninformative alternative or “alt” text. Often, content creators are simply unaware of screen reader users’ experience and accessibility best practices; there is also a lack of research knowledge about how to design accessible image-dense media, like pictorials.”
  • Mar 17, 2021. People With Disabilities Say This AI Tool Is Making the Web Worse for Them. Todd Feathers. “AccessiBe’s blind awareness tweet contained an image with no alternative text, meaning that people like Scott-Gardner, who is blind, could have no idea what it said”