The latest articles on Forem by Aethel Software (@aethelsoft). https://forem.com/aethelsoft https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Forganization%2Fprofile_image%2F11679%2F6377e65b-6ca1-4f59-8fdf-3a8bb8354193.png https://forem.com/aethelsoft en Aethel Software Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://forem.com/aethelsoft/would-you-trust-an-ai-to-fix-accessibility-in-your-codebase-7o1 https://forem.com/aethelsoft/would-you-trust-an-ai-to-fix-accessibility-in-your-codebase-7o1 <p>Accessibility (a11y) is one of those things every dev knows matters—until the deadline hits.</p> <p>We add alt text later. We tweak color contrast later. We fix ARIA warnings later. And “later” either never comes, or it takes ages of torture to fix. 🤕</p> <p>I’ve been experimenting with a dev tool idea called <strong>AccessFix</strong>—a GitHub-integrated service that automatically detects accessibility issues in your pull requests and creates a PR with the fixes already applied.</p> <p>It’s like having an a11y engineer review every commit—without extra process overhead. </p> <p>Before I build this into a real SaaS, I want to ask the community:</p> <ul> <li>Would you <strong>trust AI-generated accessibility fixes</strong>?</li> <li>What’s the <strong>most annoying part of making your app accessible</strong> today?</li> <li>Would your team use this if it came as a <strong>GitHub App or CI plugin</strong>?</li> </ul> <p>Curious to hear from anyone who’s had to juggle performance, deadlines, and accessibility at once, or just had to suffer through ages of checking mundane a11y errors.</p> <p>Let’s make the web less broken. 🌐</p> programming githubactions ai a11y