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How will Artificial Intelligence change
accessibility testing?
Dylan Barrell, Chief Technology Officer at AbilityNet
Alice Taylor, Principal Accessibility Consultant Team Leader at AbilityNet
Robin Christopherson, Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet
Kelly Chan, Digital Marketing Executive at AbilityNet

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Welcome
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• Slides are available: www.slideshare.net/abilitynet
• Notes, transcript and recording: www.abilitynet.org.uk/AI-
Accessibility-Webinar
• Feedback form for post-webinar questions

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About AbilityNet
• AbilityNet are a charity that use technology to help transform the
lives of disabled people, at home, at work and in education.
• Accessibility testing and training
• Workplace Consultancy and Assessments
• Education Consultancy
• Free services – IT and accessibility help at home and online
resources, blogs, events and webinars

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Poll 1
Who do we have here today? What's your job title?
• Accessibility Tester
• Software Developer
• UX/UI Designer
• Product Manager
• Other

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Poll 2
How do you feel about AI and the future of Accessibility?
• Excited and not concerned - AI is how we will create an
accessible web
• Equally concerned and excited - AI can help but it can also do
an equal amount of harm in the hands of bad actors
• More concerned than excited - AI cannot advance accessibility
more than where we’re at

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Any Questions? (before break)
How will artificial intelligence
change accessibility testing?

7. The axe Suite
Specific tools designed for specific roles
Test
Automation
Engineer
Designer Front-end
Developer
Branch
Pull
request
Senior
Developer
Main
branch
CI
Product
Owner
Release
candidate
General
QA Tester
Accessibility
Tester
Content Author
Production
Central
Accessibility
Leader
for
Designers
axe DevTools Linter axe DevTools Pro axe DevTools Enterprise

8. Data is a Strategic Asset

9. Deque’s approach: human-centric AI
Design computer vision models that solve the
problems people with disabilities face and
development teams must address
1. Object detection
2. OCR
3. Visual text and background rendering
4. Visual renderings in different UI states
Why? When testing is too tedious or complex, it’s ignored,
or done inconsistently and requires too much time.

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Any Questions? (before break)
Audience Q&A

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12. Top tips for boosting your digital skills, with BT Group and Age UK - September 2023
How do you feel about accessibility?
• Third annual Attitudes to Digital
Accessibility survey is now live!
• Please complete if you work in an
organisation
• Closes 30 September:
abilitynet.org.uk/Attitudes

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• AbilityNet’s accessible content resources:
www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessible-content-resources
• Accessibility and workplace training. Use our 10% discount code
'AbilityNetWebinar10' at www.abilitynet.org.uk/training
• AbilityNet newsletter: www.abilitynet.org.uk/newsletter
• Next webinars: www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
• 03 October: Tech Tools for Dyslexia at work, in education and at home
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