It’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Allow me to share a pro tip: Avoid accessiBe and similar companies claiming to offer quick and easy automated “accessibility solutions.” Please share this tip so more people know to avoid #accessiBe. #GAAD #GAAD2023 #a11y #AI

Video Transcript: (Haben, a Black woman who is Deafblind, is speaking.) Haben: Auto-captioning turns my name, Haben Girma, into "happen grandma." Imagine if you are a deaf person relying on the captioning and it's auto-captioning.

Over 400 accessibility experts & allies have signed a document describing the harms these services cause. Beware of companies claiming to use AI-based solutions to make websites accessible. Avoid these companies. Take full responsibility for accessibility.

So I navigate websites using a screenreader & on their own website I encountered barriers. If I'm finding barriers on their own website, how can I trust them to make other websites accessible? I don't. I don't trust them to make other websites accessible and I'm not the only one.

It's extremely frustrating to me, and many of my blind friends, that millions of dollars are being poured into these companies. One of these companies is called AccessiBe, and I went to their website. I'm blind, I'm a screenreader user.

You miss out — key terms, important details, if you're only relying on AI based solutions like auto-captioning. So it's a myth out there that you can rely on AI for all your accessibility needs.

AI is great in certain, very specific situations, but these companies out there — there are many of them, so it's not just one — they're claiming you can add one line of code and then your website will be accessible given their AI-based accessibility solutions.

Deceptive #accessiBe claims finally revealed by the FCC!