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The Case for an Accessibility Designer Vibe Coding When All His Coworkers are Also Vibe Coding
An accessibility designer at GitHub describes being structurally required to vibe code — using LLM-based development rather than writing JavaScript directly — to remediate and enhance accessibility features. The approach has compressed historically resource-intensive work into days or hours, enabling improvements like treeviews, F6 navigation, and smarter aria-label logic that go beyond bare legal compliance. While LLM-based development is measurably making the internet less accessible overall, it also offers the most viable path currently available to advance disability access in a narrow, practical scope.
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