This week brought exciting news about how agentic AI is helping make websites more accessible for people with disabilities.

A company called Kamiwaza announced a new AI solution that helps government websites follow the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) rules. The ADA is a law in the United States that says websites must be usable by everyone, including people who are blind, deaf, or have other disabilities.

Kamiwaza worked with three big tech companies - SHI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Nvidia - to create this special AI agent. The agent is called ARIA, and it can automatically check websites and fix problems that make them hard to use for people with disabilities.

The AI agent is actually three smart computer programs working together. One program can control a web browser and visit websites. Another program reads and understands what is on the website. The third program looks at pictures and visual information. When all three work together, they can see everything on a webpage, just like a person would.

What makes this really helpful is that ARIA can automatically fix accessibility problems. It adds special descriptions to images so blind people using screen readers can understand what the pictures show. It also changes the website code to make graphs and charts easier to understand.

Before this AI agent, fixing website accessibility problems took many years of work by people. Now, the AI can do this work much faster. This means more websites can become accessible to everyone much more quickly.

The leader of Kamiwaza, Luke Norris, said this accessibility tool is just the beginning. Once government agencies see how well this AI agent works, they will probably want to use AI agents for other jobs too. The company designed it to be easy to install and use, like plugging in an appliance, so government workers don't need to be computer experts to use it.