Accessibility Considerations in the Development of an AI Action Plan
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Mar 14, 2025
Abstract
We argue that there is a need for Accessibility to be represented in several
important domains:
- Capitalize on the new capabilities AI provides - Support for open source
development of AI, which can allow disabled and disability focused
professionals to contribute, including
- Development of Accessibility Apps which help realise the promise of AI in
accessibility domains
- Open Source Model Development and Validation to ensure that accessibility
concerns are addressed in these algorithms
- Data Augmentation to include accessibility in data sets used to train
models
- Accessible Interfaces that allow disabled people to use any AI app, and to
validate its outputs
- Dedicated Functionality and Libraries that can make it easy to integrate AI
support into a variety of settings and apps. - Data security and privacy and
privacy risks including data collected by AI based accessibility technologies;
and the possibility of disability disclosure. - Disability-specific AI risks
and biases including both direct bias (during AI use by the disabled person)
and indirect bias (when AI is used by someone else on data relating to a
disabled person).
