But what are some of the key takeaways you think they can take with them?

Yeah, I think that's a great question.

So if we look at the using AI for visual description, and you know, this has a lot of different names, it could be visual interpretation services, it could be just, you know, putting an image into ChatGPT or Gemini and asking, like, what is this? You know, this is a really helpful tool to to get access to visual information and AI with computer vision is getting really good at it.

But I thought we had some interesting data that showed that were kind of three main areas that people who are blind really identified.

And one of them is guidance for taking pictures.

If you want to get a good image description of the scene, the environment that you're in, some people are really good at taking pictures and then other people And it's not super intuitive how you get an object in the screen and then how you focus it properly and how you make sure that the right object is being identified.

within your scene.

Um, I would think maybe even like, uh, information on like picture, like, uh, picture guidance, or picture taking guidance, and that sort of thing might fall under that, for those three things, if, like tech companies and AI developers are taking away, like, what would be the, I guess, like, how would you rate them from most important, not necessarily to least, but like, what should be how should they prioritize these sort of three areas, if they were going to try to improve based on this feed on this research?

I wanna come back to you, Sarah, and ask if you know, why was this pushed back a year? Was there, was there a group pushing for more time? Were they worried about implementation? Do you, do you have some insights on that?

Yeah.

Um, there were a few entity groups, um, that expressed some concerns about the implementation date.

I think the first real effort that we saw was, I believe it's the American Council on Education, which is a higher education group, um, that was concerned about the number of public institutions, public universities and colleges that, that needed to do a lot of work to get, get things done by the April 2026 deadline.

So they were a p- part of, um, pushing this back.

There was also a p- an opportunity to, to meet with the Office of Management and Budget on some of the either support or opposition, um, to, to changes to the rule.

And so we got to see a little bit of what entities were thinking about when they were advocating for a delay of the rule.

Do you think there might be other challenges coming though? This, this, uh, was unexpected, uh, this interim final rule, and I, I hear maybe that there might be some other challenges that we, uh, can speculate might be coming.