Technology

I wasn't being totally serious, but also, I do think that while accessibility concerns come from a good place, there is some practical limitation that must be accepted when building fringe and counter-cultural things. Like, my hidden rebel base can't have a wheelchair accessible ramp at the entrance, because then my base isn't hidden anymore. It sucks that some solutions can't work for everyone, but if we just throw them out because it won't work for 5% of people, we end up with nothing. I'd rather have a solution that works for 95% of people than no solution at all. I'm not saying that people who use screen readers are second-class citizens. If crawlers were vision-based then I might suggest matching text to background colors so that only screen readers work to understand the site. Because something that works for 5% of people is also better than no solution at all. We need to tolerate having imperfect first attempts and understand that more sophisticated infrastructure comes later.

But yes my image map idea is pretty much a joke nonetheless

The crawlers are likely not AI though, but yes OCR could be done effectively without AI anyways. This idea ultimately boils down to the same hope Anubis had of making the processing costs large enough to not be worth it.