AI in the Real World Section 112

AI for Accessibility

AI that removes barriers for disabled people — the highest-value applications, built on the thinnest datasets.

10 of 10 lessons published Three reading levels on every lesson

Start with “Generating alt text that is actually useful”

Lessons in order

Work top to bottom. Each lesson assumes the one above it.

  1. Generating alt text that is actually useful
  2. Live captioning
  3. Speech recognition for atypical speech
  4. Sign language recognition
  5. Reading the world aloud
  6. Navigation aids for blind users
  7. Predictive text for AAC devices
  8. Plain-language rewriting
  9. Disability and dataset bias
  10. Evaluating assistive AI with real users