Fast, Confident, and Wrong: When AI Fails at Accessibility

You ask your AI assistant to fix an accessibility issue. It gives you code that looks perfect, runs without errors, and even cites WCAG success criteria. And you trust it. Why wouldn’t you? It sounds so certain. You ship it. Then your QA team reports that keyboard users are now trapped in your navigation menu.

This lightning talk exposes the three most dangerous ways AI fails at accessibility work and shows developers how to build verification workflows that catch these failures before they reach production.

Attendees will learn why AI confidently invents WCAG success criteria that don’t exist, how seemingly correct fixes can break assistive technology, and why verification is not optional when AI touches accessibility code.

AI is a productivity multiplier for developers who already understand accessibility fundamentals, it is not a replacement for learning them. AI will help you move fast, but only verification keeps you from breaking accessibility. Trust, but verify! And know exactly what to verify.