Our new report examines the impact of artificial intelligence on digital accessibility professional practice and skills development.
AI and Accessibility Skills: Building the Accessibility Professional of the Future was published on 5 February 2026, documenting insights from a collaborative workshop held in partnership with Jisc 2025. The workshop brought together 40 accessibility leaders, educators, researchers and practitioners from higher education, industry, policy and governance organisations across the UK.
The report explores how AI-enabled tools are reshaping accessibility workflows in areas including design, coding, captioning and testing, whilst raising critical questions about reliability, potential deskilling, and the displacement of human engagement with disabled user communities. Expert speakers examined the distinctively human skills that AI cannot replicate, AI’s limitations in generating accessible code, and ethical concerns regarding BSL avatar technologies and community co-design.
The workshop forms part of the UKRI-funded Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set project, with subsequent workshops planned across 2025-2027 to sustain sector-wide dialogue as AI’s role in accessibility practice evolves.
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