The Global Accessibility Awareness Day Foundation (also known as the GAAD Foundation) recently launched a specialized AI accessibility checker in collaboration with ServiceNow. Officially dubbed the AI Model Accessibility Check, this tool represents a timely intervention in the rapidly evolving AI development landscape.

The GAAD Foundation x ServiceNow AI accessibility checker will work to ensure that generative AI tools produce accessible code by default — this is identified as a critical gap in the industry. This open-source evaluation framework introduces measurable accountability for large language models by systematically testing their ability to generate compliant HTML outputs through customizable prompts and comparative scoring. The tool’s development reflects growing concerns that without proactive safeguards, AI’s accelerating adoption could inadvertently perpetuate digital exclusion for the 1.3 billion people with disabilities, particularly as coding assistants become ubiquitous in software development workflows.

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