When I started reading this article I didn’t know who wrote it. Then when I got to the bottom I realized it was written by the CEO of Accessibee. Clearly, he is trying to sell that AI can do everything. Yet, AI struggles with interpreting the author’s intention when it comes to alt text and image descriptions. This is why even if the AI can provide a valid description it doesn’t mean that it is capturing what the author intended. Additionally, these plugins can impact the performance of a website and create new accessibility barriers that aren’t on the original site. A lot of their features like text-to-speech, high contrast mode, changing the font, etc. are things that the user would usually do globally not on a per-site basis. Overall, be aware that these AI overlays can overpromise and if trusted solely may lead to lawsuits. I recommend paying a web accessibility expert to fix the code of the website.
AccessiBe’s accessibility overlay^ is hot garbage. The National Federation of the Blind banned accessiBe from their convention a few years ago because their product sucks. It doesn’t actually fix issues in the code and doesn’t make sites that use them WCAG compliant. It also increases page load time and is a major memory hog. No surprise, it’s blocked by default by Ublock Origin.
^not just accessiBe, but all of the accessibility overlay “solutions.” Hot garbage.