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AI effluential

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As part of my cycle of going through useless tasks I rechecked the web UI of our old friend ChatGPT. Given the emormous amounts of money being progressively spaffed up the wall on LLMs by the feckless impotent men children of Silicon Valley I would expect making the UI of their product accessible is a task they were on top of.

Let’s take a mini tour of the billion dollar UI:

info about what?

UI of the ChatGPT speech to text interface

<button aria-label="Open info modal">
Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice
</button>

a possible better way

<button aria-haspopup="dialog">
Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice 
</button>
  • accname: Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice
  • visible label Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice
  • SC 2.5.3: Label in Name (Level A) pass
  • programmatic indication (aria-haspopup="dialog") that pressing the button will open a dialog

Lovin’ the suggestions…

The main ChatGPT input form with text box and buttons

  • It’s ashame that non-mouse user cannot select anything beyond the first suggestion
  • The text contrast of the suggestions is so poor that it is difficult to read, along with the placeholder grey label  and light blue button text
  • The textbox that isn’t a textbox, and has no name, the placeholder that isn’t a placeholder.

Further reading

Same as it ever was

There has been no substantive improvement in the accessibility of the ChatGPT UI, its fairly obvious that accessibility is not and never has been a priority for OpenAI.

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Into the blue again, after the money's gone
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Into the blue again, into the silent water
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Leting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
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And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?"
And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, into the silent water
Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, look where my hand was
Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us
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Letting the days go by (same as it ever was, same as it ever was)
Letting the days go by (same as it ever was, same as it ever was)
Once in a lifetime, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

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