Vibe coded and inaccessible? What AI-built sites get wrong | Upcoming Webinar
AI can build a working website from a single prompt. Whether that site works for screen reader users and keyboard users is a different question, and the early data isn’t encouraging. WebAIM’s 2026 Million report found that 95.9% of home pages had at least one detectable Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 failure, up from 94.8% the year before. WebAIM names AI-assisted coding as one likely factor.
Shannon Oconnor, AI Contractor at Accessible Web, is following up on our earlier webinar, Is AI making the web less accessible?, with a closer look at vibe coding: how common it has become, what it’s doing to accessibility, and what you can do about it if you’re building with AI.
What we’ll cover:
- How widespread vibe coding is, including among people shipping software with no formal programming background
- WebAIM data on growing page complexity and the accessibility errors that come with it
- Findings from the AIMAC report on how different AI models perform on accessibility, and why simpler models tended to produce more accessible pages
- Whether adding accessibility guidance to your prompts actually improves the code you get back
- Practical ways to protect accessibility in vibe coded sites, starting with keeping things simple
Building with AI yourself, or reviewing work someone else built with it? Bring your questions. We encourage you to ask them live throughout the session!
Join us Thursday, November 19 at 2:00 PM EST.
Can’t make it live? Register anyway, and we’ll send the recording and resources straight to your inbox.
