Accessibility Remediation

The process of identifying and fixing accessibility barriers in digital products such as websites, mobile applications, or documents to bring them into compliance with accessibility standards and make them usable by people with disabilities. Remediation may involve modifying source code, updating design elements, adding alternative text, adjusting color contrast, restructuring content for proper semantic hierarchy, or implementing keyboard navigation. Research on using large language models for automated remediation shows promise but also significant limitations: while LLMs can describe accessibility issues accurately, they struggle to consistently generate syntactically correct and compilable code fixes, making human oversight essential in the remediation process.