Leverage AI for Accessibility & How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Slop

📌 Leveraging AI in Support of Accessibility: A Roadmap for the Journey with Gilad Shanan

Generative AI is transforming workflows across a wide variety of industries at a dizzying pace. The opportunity to leverage AI in building applications and tools that are accessible to all is enormous — uncharted territory with no clear map.
An AI-powered, agile, sustainable approach to accessibility reduces overhead and compliance risk while making it easier than ever to ship high-quality, accessible products in less time. This is both exciting and daunting, raising big questions: which tools to choose, how to get the best results from them, and how to develop the buy-in and culture of experimentation that leads to internalizing and mastering new ways of working.
In this talk, I'll share lessons learned at TXI over the last three years — starting with our approach to organizational change, then zooming in on the specific AI tools we're experimenting with today. The tools I'll be sharing are relevant to a broad range of roles, not just technical ones: a roadmap you can bring back to your organization and make your own.

📌 Built by Nobody, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Slop with Liam Hinderman

There's code in production right now that nobody wrote, reviewed, or tested. Vibe-coded end-to-end, shipped, and appearing done.

But it isn't. And there's lots of it.

This talk is about what happens when it becomes your responsibility not only iterate on that app, but to also bring it up to working standards without taking it offline or rewriting it from scratch. It covers taking control over a codebase without any human decision making, telling the working parts from the slop, and rearchitecting it while it's serving users.

The approach isn't new. The playbook for modernizing legacy systems predates vibe coding. When no one can say how the thing works, you recover ground truth from what it does, not what it claims. And AI can be brought in to help. The same tool that produced the slop can help with rearchitecting when approached with proper discipline.

The aim is to make that discipline reusable: context, guardrails, skills, and workflows that keep agents from trusting the app in front of them and instead help build toward the system it was meant to be.

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If you're interested in speaking at an upcoming meetup, please email me at heather@bitovi.com.