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Robin Christopherson

Robin Christopherson

Robin Christopherson MBE is Head of Digital Inclusion at UK tech charity AbilityNet and a blind advocate for accessibility and inclusive design.

Sep 15, 2026

SamHOST
20:48
But I wonder if you can give us a perception of what chatbots are like in terms of the ones that, I don't wanna name any names, but the big ones that people might use every day.
20:59
Well, so first I should say that, yeah, WCAG is, is what many people will have heard of.
21:04
There are equivalent accessibility guidelines for Android and iOS as well, so those would be the relevant ones there.
21:11
Obviously, if you've got a web UI within your, you know, native app, then WCAG would kick in as well.
21:17
But yeah, most people are familiar with like a chat interface with... which is a web, basically a web, um, panel, either embedded or, you know, like a, if you go to chat.com, for example.
21:28
Then it's got the same considerations.
21:30
There are several issues, like obviously unlabeled buttons to be able to upload documents or to change the model or whatever it might be.

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SamHOST
27:11
Does that present risks in itself for, well, for consumers as well as for, for organizations trying to get information across and get services out to consumers?
48:24
right right all right so robin what what have you been working on this this this summer with vibe coding
48:31
really daft little things, mostly games, but that's just the way I roll.
48:37
And, you know, people have been doing a lot of worthy things like Alison Malloy has done AVM, Accessible Virtual Machine, which I wanted to give a plug for because all you Mac users out there who want to run Windows and are struggling with an inaccessible VM, this is a free accessible VM called AVM that she's vibe coded in about a month.
49:02
And it's really, really good.
49:03
So I wanted to get a plugin for her.
49:05
And there are so many other, I mean, just, you know, spend five minutes on Mastodon, scrolling down and you'll see 18 different really useful utilities that people have been vibe coding.
49:17
There's just so much excitement and activity out there.
49:35
them and put them in the

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