I’m blind, not a fool. So, before being enthusiast and purchase a product (or subscribe to a trial) better to read frequently asked questions.
This one, Guide Interaction, claims to be an agent which helps navigating to inaccessible contents and do tasks for you.
It could reach places where the traditional screen readers wouldn’t go, but basically it means paying at least 8 dollars per month, given to an American company (or two, including Anthropic), in order to solve what developers should take care about. Yes, I even could theoretically pay for it and then say “wow, I’m using all open source software! Yay!” without caring of unmaintained accessibility for some popular free and open source productivity suites - Windows based, as the app runs there.
But that isn’t independence. That’s profit. That’s taking advantage of vulnerable people, to earn money. And in their site they also say prices are affordable! But if you just pay a traditional AI, just in case? Are they serious?
Everyone can think what they want, but having spent already 1000 euro for standard Jaws for Windows screen reader, I have no intention of adding 25 extra monthly dollars, euro may be even more, to overcome what other people should have made accessible. I don’t pay for others’ responsibility!
