The Cost of Accessibility in AI — Jemima Abu, CAIS
AI Engineer — Oct 14, 2026 — talk
Why watch
Jemima Abu presents an experiment showing how accessibility guidance can reduce AI agent costs and development time. The talk explains why accessible codebases teach better conventions to AI agents, emphasizing that accessibility begins with business requirements and design decisions. Developers learn practical strategies for auditing interfaces, packaging accessibility instructions into AI skills, and preferring semantic HTML over verbose custom components.