Your Users Are Not Just Human: Designing Systems for People and LLMs - Guust Ysebie

This talk addresses the critical role of accessibility in AI-driven systems, reframing it as a systems-level engineering concern rather than a secondary feature. The speaker explains how accessible content facilitates better understanding and processing by both humans and machines, highlighting the importance of structure, semantics, and clarity. The session covers how accessible design provides essential semantic cues that improve machine readability and outperform traditional OCR in AI workflows. Practical strategies for integrating accessibility into existing systems are also discussed, aiming to enhance performance while reducing processing costs and ensuring safer outcomes.