Slides
Tim Damen @timdamen_io
Description
For decades we've argued that accessibility is the right thing to do. The argument just got easier, because your next customer probably isn't human. AI agents now browse, compare, and interact on behalf of users, and they consume your site through the exact same accessibility tree screen readers do. This talk covers how agents use the web, why their failures map to WCAG violations, and what web development teams should do today to improve the agent experience (AX).
Resources
The following resources were mentioned in the talk, used for research, or are otherwise relevant:
- Build agent-friendly websites - web.dev
- How AI Agents See Your Website: The Accessibility Tree Explained - IsAgentReady
- How AI Agents See Your Website (And How to Build for Them) - No Hacks
- agent-browser: Browser automation CLI for AI agents - Vercel Labs
- Chrome DevTools MCP - Tool reference
- Playwright MCP server - Microsoft
- Browser Use - Agent parameters
- OpenClaw - Browser tool
- Star history: OpenClaw vs React
- How People with Disabilities Use the Web - W3C WAI
- Disability fact sheet - World Health Organization
- The WebAIM Million: 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages
- A11y-CUA Dataset: Characterizing the Accessibility Gap in Computer Use Agents - arXiv
- WCAG 3.0 Working Draft: Comment on Autonomous Agents as Primary and Proxy Users - w3c/wcag3 #636
- AI traffic to US retailers jumps - Yahoo Finance
- ChatGPT Commerce: Usage, Adoption & Agentic Shopping Statistics (2026) - Elogic
- Agentic Commerce Statistics (2026) - Paz.ai
- Agentic Commerce Statistics: New 2026 Benchmarks & Market Data - Mohammed Shehu
ABN AMRO Developer: The Goodbye Meetup 2026
ABN AMRO Corporate Headquarters, Amsterdam, Netherlands