Charlotte Joanne - Through the AIs of the Blind

19 Dec 2025 4 min read

Validate the Generator

There is a sentence that reliably derails conversations about accessibility and AI: “AI can’t write proper alt text.” It sounds responsible. It sounds ethical. It sounds like care. It is none of

18 Dec 2025 1 min read

Looking and seeing are not the same thing — and AI lets blind people do both now.

Some of the most exciting work in vision AI right now is about looking. Explore-by-touch tools let you interrogate an image piece by piece. You can find the couch, trace the edge of

18 Dec 2025 5 min read

How to Sell Knickers to Blind People: A look at AI-written image descriptions, desire, and the quiet politics of accessibility

There’s a sentence that will make some people flinch before they’ve even finished reading it: How to sell knickers to blind people. The flinch is the point. It exposes an assumption

16 Dec 2025 2 min read

Layers of Image Description: when to use humans, when to use multiple AIs, and when “good enough” really is

I want to share a simple mental model I’ve been using to think about image description tools. This isn’t about which app is “best”. It’s about how much reliability you

16 Dec 2025 1 min read

We need an Eval layer for AI in the blind assistive tech world.

After the last few discussions I’ve been part of, I’ve realised something important. We’re not really disagreeing about tools. We’re disagreeing about how we decide what AI can and